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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Keith Woolner speaks
Keith goes long with the BPro readers, and gives some good tidbits. Here are a few:
1 That being said, it’s an interesting thought experiment to ponder what the Nationals could command if they were to trade the #1 pick.
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2 I’d say that the best way to break into baseball analytics is to start doing it on your own. Don’t have any expectations that it will lead to anything, just do what interests you, and it will lead you to other topics and questions. Build up a base of knowledge, and complement that with the technical skills (Excel/database/stats) that you need to answer your own questions well. Write, write, and write some more. If you develop a reputation as an expert in something, teams will notice.
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3 Sorry for taking so much time to answer this one, but I think Rice looks better through contemporary views than through a modern analytical lens, and I don’t think it’s silly to consider that perspective.
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4 If a reliever enters the game mid-inning, he has to remain in the game until either the side is retired, or he is charged with a run. (tip of the hat to Bill James for that last requirement, which I had more fuzzy ideas about before I heard him mention it)
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5 I like to tell people that Cleveland is a great product with bad marketing.
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6 The idea that BP is some Borg-like entity governed by groupthink is a myth.
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7 The PitchFX data is a tremendous resource, and one that would have hard to assemble without dealing with some central entity, so I’d say it’s been a good thing for us.
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8 Most of the baseball department gets in between 7 and 9 in the morning, and on game days will be in the office until midnight or later. On non-game days, it varies. I’m a little bit different in that I don’t have any specific gameday duties, so I’m not required to be at the park, although often I will be, especially if it’s a night where my family can come out to the game as well. As for the money, it’s a lot less than what you could make in other fields
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9 There are tons of lawyers, physicists, grad students from elite universities, and Wall Street quants (especially lately) that are willing to work in baseball for peanuts.
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