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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Minor League Data
David’s Fangraphs is starting to carry minor league data. There’s also Chris’ First Inning site, Jeff’s Minor League Splits site, and of course Gary’s Baseball Cube.
Notably absent are Baseball Reference and Baseball Prospectus. BP used to create some wonderful MLE, but that no longer seems to be the case. As for B-R, Sean seems to indicate that minor league data may be in the near future.
The big players, Yahoo, ESPN, MLB.com, are nowhere to be found here. It’s strange, but it seems the bigger they are, the less valuable minor league data is judged. And yet, the ones that earn our eternal admiration, the Davids, Garys, Chrises and Jeffs, are the ones that value minor league data as more than a passing fancy.
Here’s hoping the big boys with infinite resources, or the medium boys with some of it, treat the minor leagues as something of value. Until then, it’s the upstarts that rule the day.
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