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Friday, August 25, 2006

The Shift

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When Bonds was Bonds the shift probably did not hurt him all that much overall, or at least the decrease in production from the shift was but a mere drop in the bucket compared to his overall offensive production.

Now that he is no longer Bonds, I am beginning to wonder if the shift is really hurting his overall offensive value.

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What would happen if the shootout period was 10 minutes, not 5?

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August 25, 2006
The Shift

Dec 05 11:47		Sabermetric Moves of the 2009 Pre-Season
Dec 05 11:31		NYC’s 3 1/2 year mandatory jail time sentence for carrying a loaded weapon
Dec 05 10:28		Raines for the Hall
Dec 05 05:33		Avery being Avery
Dec 04 23:42		Poll: Would you vote Raines for the Hall?
Dec 04 23:07		How to calculate the area of a baseball field
Dec 04 22:48		Complete Run Expectancy, Retrosheet Years
Dec 04 15:55		Mailbags on Parade
Dec 04 14:01		What would happen if the shootout period was 10 minutes, not 5?
Dec 04 11:49		Estimating BABIP
Dec 03 20:51		Marcel 2009 is here
Dec 03 14:50		The Return of the Baseball Abstract? No, the next best thing…
Dec 03 10:42		What was Pedro worth?
Dec 02 23:36		The Holy Writers strike again!
Dec 02 18:02		Multi-game sports table
Dec 02 17:59		RARP v VORP, take 2
Dec 02 11:37		Get Rice in the Hall already
Dec 02 11:25		Rob Neyer touts wOBA
Dec 02 11:14		wOBA year-by-year calculations
Dec 02 09:04		The 3-0 count
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The Shift

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