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2013

July, 2013

• 30 What is Cliff Lee’s trade value?

• 30 Touting Touts

• 30 Correlations

• 29 wOBA v Runs / PA, 2003-2012, Team Offense

• 29 Time Value of Money

• 29 There are eight playoff teams, not ten

• 29 Mets six-man rotation

• 29 Clayton Kershaw

• 29 If no one is around to see or accept the awards, did HOF weekend just happen?

• 28 Tino

• 28 MLB leader in ejections

• 27 Schools, Cops, Zero-tolerance… and death

• 27 Kill The Win Army

• 26 IBB Bad News Bears

• 26 WAR on Topps baseball cards

• 26 NHL continues to target goalie equipment for standardization (and reduction)

• 26 Random Variation Library

• 26 Luhnow’s K/BB ratio

• 26 Pitches down the middle that look like reasonable called balls

• 26 MLB Marketing Departments

• 26 Joyless club: life of a Hall of Fame voter

• 26 Tim Raines stole bases when it counted

• 26 Shift to the left, shift to the right, shift real funky

• 26 Betting on luck, literally

• 25 Linear Weights by the 24 base-out states

• 24 Whose future is brightest in Milwaukee: Braun, or the Journal-Sentinel newspaper?

• 24 Are daily gaming leagues legal?

• 24 Sanitized records of pitchers via ERA

• 24 Knowing too many numbers makes you LESS informative

• 24 Factors that contribute to the called strike zone

• 24 OF/P platoon

• 24 When runner to whom defense is indifferent falls down, does he deserve credit for the winning run?

• 24 A 14mph pitch that crosses home plate?

• 22 Motion of spherical objects

• 22 Players implicitly agree: PED is a workplace safety issue

• 22 Is Ichiro struggling?

• 22 “Scandals have media sizzling, public shrugging”

• 22 Has any team’s worst fielding-outfielder played centerfield?

• 22 Gabe Kapler, neo-saberist

• 22 Who is the new Frenchy Hillenbrand?

• 22 Effect of longer-outings on next game

• 20 Racial balancing: the economic solution

• 19 Nate Silver leaves NY Times for ESPN

• 19 NHL renames their divsions, blows it?

• 19 Most Valuable Trade Properties

• 19 Defunct Cleveland Barons

• 19 Grounballs, and a new FX database

• 19 Laundry records

• 18 Building a better bat

• 18 Four-man rotation

• 18 Live music v pre-recorded music

• 18 wOBA, wOBA, wOBA

• 18 Pitch-framing leaderboards

• 17 When do teams sac bunt?

• 16 Mainstay Mariano

• 16 Dave Chappelle

• 16 Biogenesis not bound by JDA

• 16 Sabermetric discoveries

• 16 Jason Kipnis, voice of reason

• 16 Matt Harvey asks New Yorkers about… Matt Harvey

• 15 Kovalchuk’s Bobby Hull moment

• 15 Spoilers on scripted shows that are being wagered upon

• 15 How many no-shows are there per game?

• 15 When the bully is bullied

• 15 More opportunities to hit a HR

• 15 How much time of action in a baseball game?

• 15 Four foul balls, one fan

• 13 OPS Primer

• 12 Are we ready to move on from batting average (and TAv)?

• 12 Bill James on looking for real streaks among the random variation

• 12 Fun with WAR

• 12 Illustration of Cap-Benefit Recapture

• 12 Mitch Williams v Jeremy Roenick

• 12 Pitchers with best stuff

• 12 Are deferred salaries penalties?  No?  Then neither are deferred cap hits.

• 11 Kovalchuk’s deferred cap hit

• 11 Ichiro’s countdown to 4000 hits: already at 4005!

• 11 National Forest of Ichiro

• 11 Justin Bieber

• 11 Two-way player in Japan

• 11 Never heckle a comedian, or this will happen to you

• 10 Cliff Lee v Barry Zito, 2012

• 10 Today in phony outrage

• 10 Tim Raines’ return to Expos

• 09 Spilborghs the beans

• 09 Value of non-guaranteed contract

• 09 Age of team

• 09 Brian Kenny on Twitter

• 08 Lucas Harrell’s Two Faces

• 08 Odds of Chris Davis hitting 61 HR this year?

• 08 When did the All-Star Game rosters pass you by?

• 08 Correcting the batter out of turn

• 07 Rules proposals… from 50 years ago

• 05 When a force out is not a force out

• 05 Leverage Index by Event… by Player

• 05 When staking your claim on n = 1

• 05 Estimating pitcher release point

• 03 Boards in read-only mode until Monday

• 03 MLB: from two leagues to two conferences

• 03 Pitch-tipping

• 03 Fastest to 100 hits?

• 03 Casper Wells, pitcher

• 03 Ellis Valentine

• 02 College Game of Thrones

• 02 Brilliant Reader Replacement Level

• 02 Another year, another protection “debate”

• 02 Batting average: the horse buggy of useful metrics

• 02 Golf rules based on politics

• 01 Sakes Hauer, redux

• 01 Calming nerves of relievers

• 01 Jeff Francoeur

• 01 Ball and strikes, split by plate count

• 01 Resting players

• 01 Is BABIP for hitters an indicator of future performance?