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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Dual Positions, using bUZR

By Tangotiger, 04:31 PM

With so much of this being discussed at Primer and Fangraphs, I figured it was time to update my process to use the latest data from MGL’s bUZR. So, sit back, and prepared to be numbed by numbers:

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