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2014

August, 2014

• 31 Both HIGH SCHOOL pitchers go the distance in a 50-inning 700 pitch outings

• 31 Narrative-building v random-variation

• 29 Are LF worse fielders this year compared to recent years?

• 29 Alex Gordon is this year’s Mike Trout.  And who is this year’s Miguel Cabrera?  Trout!

• 29 Lines, lines, lines

• 28 New Fangraphs Leaderboards

• 26 Yet another rich CEO making it on the backs of uncompensated kids

• 26 ESPN Shower Report

• 23 Batting Order Primer

• 22 Skill in leveraging the catcher’s framing

• 22 Impact of SB on the batter

• 20 More Hockey Analytic hires

• 19 Player buy-in to change in program

• 19 Humans with prosthetics are neither inferior nor superior

• 19 Michele Roberts

• 18 Pedro Martinez, starting at pitch #101, has the BEST OPS allowed in the pitch-tracking era

• 18 Better BBWAA Cy model

• 18 At which point is Cueto the favorite over Kershaw?  And what of Kluber?

• 16 Bill Scarecrow James

• 16 World Series 1986 Game 6 on a T-shirt

• 16 Mo’ne Davis

• 15 Gap in performance between Starters and Relievers

• 15 How the voting went for commissioner

• 15 NHL.com limits scraping of data

• 15 Criss-cross Lee-Strasburg

• 15 Using randomization

• 15 Seinfeld talks baseball

• 14 Commit line to avoid collisions

• 14 Songs stuck in my head

• 14 Baseball data tutorials

• 14 Earnings by race

• 13 When Rule 7.13 was first implemented in 1999 and in another sport

• 13 Inside the mind of a BBWAA voter

• 13 wOBAcon

• 13 Burke Badenhop cites Dan Brooks

• 12 Situational Hitting Exists

• 12 Pitcher of the Year: Felix or Kershaw?

• 11 How much bias is there in the media against pitchers for MVP?

• 11 Deconstructing Bill James’ Game Score

• 11 Systematic biases and random variation

• 11 SABR101X course evaluation

• 11 Players with best careers ahead of them

• 11 Instincts and aggressiveness

• 11 Cueto v Kershaw: Narrative, Performance, and Prior Mindset of Voters

• 11 Kriging

• 09 Hockey Abstract 2014

• 08 Lazy Texas Hold’em Odds

• 08 Is Cueto now the favorite for the NL Cy Young?

• 07 Eliminating the possibility of ties at ANY point in the game

• 07 Yet another sabre hired by an NHL team

• 06 Performing at below-replacement level multiple years and still given a chance

• 06 More starting pitchers, or more relievers?

• 05 Don’t make all positions equal just because you want to

• 05 Pete Rose, capitalizing on infamy

• 05 Art of the Fire Sale

• 05 Move over Willie Bloomquist: Dewayne Wise is now the new Face of Replacement Level

• 03 Replacement Level is NOT the same thing as the Average Level

• 03 A Punt-TD!

• 03 Misattributing pitches when pitcher is ejected

• 02 WOWY Molina

• 02 Kershaw finally makes his move in the Cy race

• 02 Would a USA/Canada Sports Association empowered to suspend players help or hurt?

• 01 Earnshaw Cook

• 01 SABR Convention Recap

• 01 Keeping saves AWAY from good pitchers

• 01 Rewriting history

• 01 How did the trades affect the playoff odds?

• 01 Blast from the past: stopping the batter from taking so many first pitches