THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Carlos Pena has primarily played for the A’s, Rangers, and Rays. Although I think perhaps he may have been with the Rangers pre-saber-y front office.

He also played for a widely respected GM in Dombrowski and of course Jim Hendry.

And I forgot his very short stint with the Red Sox. So he’s definitely been with Beane, Epstein, and Friedman plus Dombrowski and Hendry.

Jack Cust will probably join the club this year.

Jack Hannahan in Oakland, Seattle and Cleveland.

Adam LaRoche in Pittsburgh, Boston and Arizona.

Akinori Iwamura in Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh and Oakland.

Bobby Crosby probably doesn’t make it, as non-saber teams would also have had him around as long as the A’s.

Jeremy Hermida in Boston, Oakland and San Diego

Dana Eveland in Oakland, Toronto and Pittsburgh

Jose Molina: Yankees, Blue Jays, Rays

Marco Scutaro: A’s, Blue Jays, Red Sox

Adrian Beltre: Mariners, Red Sox, Rangers

Kerry Wood: Indians, Yankees, Cubs

Jason Isringhausen: Cardinals, Rays, Mets

DJ Carrasco: Pirates, Diamondbacks, Mets

Blaine Boyer: Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Mets

Adam Kennedy: Cardinals, Athletics, [Nationals], Mariners

Erik Bedard: Mariners, Red Sox, Pirates

Lyle Overbay: Blue Jays, Pirates, Diamondbacks

Brad Hawpe: Rays, Padres, Pirates

Ryan Ludwick: Cardinals, Padres, Pirates

Zach Duke: Pirates, Diamondbacks, Astros

Julio Lugo: Rays, Red Sox, Cardinals

Bartolo Colon: Red Sox, [White Sox], [DNP 2010], Yankees, A’s

Interesting list so far.  Saber leaning teams like older injury prove vets.

I should say we should limit the players to those signed for at most 2 years.  Having Beltre in there kinda goes against the basic idea here.

#6 lists 17 teams.  I’m assuming from the brackets that you’re excluding the White Sox and Nationals, but that still 1/2 of all clubs.  I’m wondering what type of criteria we’re using to categorize a team as saber-leaning vs. non-saber-leaning.

I simply went off of what I have heard about the teams or what we know. For example, where the Mets are listed, it’s based on Alderson being the GM (as opposed to when Minaya was in that position). Likewise, we have strong, early indicators that the new Astros front office is interested in using advanced statistical analysis (hence, Zach Duke).