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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Measuring clubhouse chemistry

By Tangotiger

Sky makes a great case:

It would appear that at max, a team considers even the jerkiest behavior worth about -1.5 wins over the course of a season. From the examples above, and some intuition, it seems that league average players can be released due to serious “cancerous” behavior, but that above that level, teams would rather deal with the player’s attitude than give up his talent.

(8) Comments • 2009/09/23 • Sabermetrics • Clutch • MLB_Management

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