THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

The Unwritten Book is Finally Written!
An in-depth analysis of: The sacrifice bunt, batter/pitcher matchups, the intentional base on balls, optimizing a batting lineup, hot and cold streaks, clutch performance, platooning strategies, and much more.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Baker and PAP

By Tangotiger, 10:45 AM

Nate Silver takes a look at the relationship of the team philosophy, manager philosophy, and the prevailing mindset at the time, on the usage of pitchers. This is an effective way of using the results of PAP, without needing to buy into the conclusions of PAP.

• Sabermetrics • Pitchers

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