lmao dat fuccn bill james article is tyte...
Q: Billy Beane, G.M. for the Oakland A’s, has made sabermetric stats a major part of his “value” philosophy when building a baseball team. He’s frequently said that his method will build regular season winners but it doesn’t seem to work in the playoffs. Do you think that this is simply a result of a small sample size or the wrong statistics being used, or is it something more fundamental about “unmeasurable” statistics, like the ability to perform under pressure and “heart?”A: Oh, I thought people had stopped asking that. Blast from the past there.
A: Oh, I thought people had stopped asking that. Blast from the past there.
― cankles, Saturday, 5 April 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Greg Maddux has to be considered about the best all around pitcher of his generation, as beyond his pitching prowess, the guy is great with the glove and quite competent with the stick. He is one of those guys that seemed to actually take serious being able to lay a bunt down.
― earlnash, Saturday, 5 April 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i LOLed hard for some reason last week in santana's first met AB that he took a fuckin vlad guerrero cut at an eye level fast ball (missed obv, strike 3)
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 April 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Alfonseca batted .667 in 2002 with the Cubs.:
Don Baylor managed to send Alfonseca to the plate with the bases loaded with two outs in the 9th inning of a slim 4-3 Cubs lead. In the bottom of the 8th inning, Baylor inexplicably double-switched in Augie Ojeda for Mark Bellhorn, the 6th batter due in the 9th inning instead of Delino DeShields, the 9th batter due. Of course, Alfonseca came up. Of course, Baylor was too stupid to realize that in a situation like that, you pinch hit, pray for a base hit, and get your best reliever still in the bullpen warmed up. Of course, Alfonseca looked like a complete jackass at the plate. Of course, he hit a weak ground ball which miraculously found the side of the first-base bag, kicked up over Lee Stevens’ head, and scored two runs.
― felicity, Sunday, 6 April 2008 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice opposite-field RBI single for Zambrano!
― felicity, Thursday, 17 April 2008 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Big Z is 3-for-4 with a double. So far.
― felicity, Thursday, 17 April 2008 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Cubs pitchers! Jason Marquis RBI double!
― felicity, Saturday, 19 April 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
wes ferrell was pretty good
http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/ferrewe01.shtml
― xhuxk, Monday, 5 May 2008 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Carlos Zambrano is 4 for 5 on thnight, with 2 RBI.
― felicity, Saturday, 24 May 2008 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7588
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 29 May 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Interesting!
Dontrelle Willis: +8.7 runs per season. Willis' hitting is strong enough that there’s a real transaction cost when he plays in the American League—there’s about a win's worth of value that simply isn’t going to be realized in a DH league.
― mattbot, Thursday, 29 May 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
The absence of pitcher hitting stats is my least favorite part of leaguewide fantasy baseball. There are NL-only leagues for that reason I hope.
Where is there even a good, easy place to find pitcher hitting stats besides baseball-reference.com?
― felicity, Thursday, 29 May 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Baseball Prospectus
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Evaluating Pitcher Hitting
― zaxxon25, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Interesting
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 29 May 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Also check this article out
Thanks
― felicity, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
johan has 8 doubles this year
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
If by eight you mean four, then yes he does.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
cole hamels is having a decent season at the plate.
.316 BA
― j.q higgins, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
BLOOPER
.407/.484/.519
― bnw, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Jake Peavy: Wants to Stay in NLRotoWire.com Staff - RotoWire.com Peavy, who the Padres are open to trading, is likely unwilling to approve a trade to the American League, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Recommendation: Peavy’s agent said Peavy would like to stay in the N.L. because of his comfort level in the league and his productivity at the plate (he hit .265 last season). He also mentioned Peavy wanting to end up on a team with “a winning tradition” and in a city that fit “his and his family’s lifestyle.” Peavy still maintains that his first choice is to stay in San Diego, so all of this chatter may be for nothing, but the Padres are taking their due diligence by gauging his trade value. Peavy’s agent mentioned Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and St. Louis as potential destinations.
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His family's lifestyle. . .
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Mike Leake: .417/.440/.458 in 29 PAs
― Andy K, Sunday, 6 June 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus fuck
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 6 June 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ted lilly: .029/.108/.029
1-for-3420 k2 bb1 hbp1 rbi!
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 August 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
josh tomlin is 6 for 9 for his career nice
― johnny crunch, Friday, 20 May 2016 00:37 (seven years ago) link
#Nationals Bryce HarperLast 190 PA: 11 HR#Angels Mike TroutLast 190 PA: 11 HR#SFGiants Madison BumgarnerLast 190 PA: 11 HR
#Angels Mike TroutLast 190 PA: 11 HR
#SFGiants Madison BumgarnerLast 190 PA: 11 HR
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 June 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
that's the best stat i've seen in a long time.
― dynamicinterface, Friday, 3 June 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
They said swing hard you’ll be fine they said it would be fun #pitcherswhorake pic.twitter.com/lJcfxwGps1— Conner Greene (@connergreene) May 8, 2018
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/tiny.fcgi?id=5X3XE
i did not recall russ ortiz as a pitcher who could hit
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link