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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Who’s Waldo?

By , 10:25 PM

How often do you see someone try and bowl over the catcher these days, a la Pete Rose and Ray Fosse in the 1970 All-Star Game?

How often do you see that when the runner would have been safe by a mile if he had just slid in like 99.9% of players do these days?

Try and guess who made that ignoble and boneheaded play.  If you saw or heard of the play, obviously you can’t guess…

(34) Comments • 2010/09/02 • Sabermetrics • Baserunning
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Feb 11 16:48
Reader Mail of the Day: Why do we need X years of fielding data?  And what about outliers?

Feb 11 16:10
Clutch analogy

Feb 11 15:58
MGL: Today on Clubhouse Confidential

Feb 11 11:54
Who is Jeremy Lin?

Feb 11 10:29
Dwight Evans

Feb 11 02:12
Performance through the ages

Feb 10 23:01
For Your Soul

Feb 10 21:07
Hero of the month: Brittney Baxter

Feb 10 18:32
Moneyball at Villanova

Feb 10 17:00
Psst… wanna intern in Canada?

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