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2008

April, 2008

• 30 Why numbers are only one lens of your glasses

• 30 Age Restrictions of the Draft

• 30 Recent movies I like too much

• 30 Adrian Beltre

• 30 Soriano or Swisher?

• 30 Archives: Component Regression

• 29 The injury experts

• 29 Brewers, Bush: What DO teams use to evaluate pitchers?

• 28 Why did Jake Peavy bat last night in the 6th?

• 28 Poz and the IBB

• 28 Why don’t the “snooty sneetches with stars upon thars” listen to Phil Birnbaum?

• 28 Gregg Easterbrook

• 27 Rating the pitching coaches (sorta, maybe)

• 27 Small team sample size: Can anyone just write anything they want because they have a “title”?

• 26 Three straights great games

• 25 Searching for Chase Utley

• 25 How much of an NL starter’s hitting is tied up to his value?

• 25 Evaluating catchers: Interesting series of studies by Dan Turkenkopf at Beyond the Box Score

• 24 File listing dump

• 23 Retro Fangraphs

• 23 What in the world is OBP minus BA?

• 22 Jim Gray or Tom Farrey?

• 22 The Greatest Platoon of all-time

• 22 The short and tall of it

• 22 Base Out Ratios: The Mother of all Reinventions

• 22 Fastball speed and movement, while resting

• 22 NBA Win Shares and WOWY

• 22 Welcome Jnai to the PITCHf/x world

• 22 Sports Riots

• 22 Breaking even on stealing

• 22 Small team sample size: Do I care that the Tigers are 7-13, the WS are 11-7, or that Flo is 12-7?

• 22 WOWY Ripken

• 21 Now this is good stuff: Fastball speeds

• 21 And You Think I’m Snark?: Tango Interview

• 18 Do Teams Overalue Pitchers with Bad Control but Good Stuff

• 18 How to calculate Loss Shares

• 18 Not EXACTLY one run, but AT LEAST one run

• 18 Sequencing Pitches

• 17 Why aren’t catchers pitching coaches?

• 17 Forbes’ Team Valuations

• 17 Loss Shares and Win Advancements

• 17 Batter on Deck

• 17 Changes on the fly

• 16 Should a great hitter bunt against the shift?

• 16 Retrosheet Database, part 1

• 16 (Limited) Career Leverage Index

• 15 Hockey Databases

• 15 Brainstorming PITCHf/x questions

• 14 Fastball aging curves

• 11 Does MLB.com know how to classify pitches?

• 10 MLB.tv doesn’t archive

• 10 Sabermetric Moves of the 2008 In-Season

• 10 Batted Ball DIPS

• 10 Psst… wanna work for Fangraphs.com?

• 10 The Visual WPA Project

• 10 Peak ages for hitters and pitchers

• 10 Bruce Bochy

• 10 Performance in non-save situations

• 10 Is there a hangover effect for hitters following a knuckler?

• 09 The Baseball Vatican?

• 09 Leverage Index splits, now available at b-r.com!

• 09 HR distribution

• 08 The Great Firewall of China

• 08 Technolgy in hockey

• 08 If you hate Joe Morgan, you’ll love this…

• 08 Recording Fielder Positioning

• 07 Request for Vegas data

• 07 Valuing a franchise

• 07 IBB Redux

• 06 Sort of a Review of Canseco’s book, Vindicated

• 04 The Lineup Spectrum

• 04 Help Dusty make the optimal batting order

• 04 SB then and now

• 03 Sac bunt: Who the hell is Richard Justice?

• 03 Should Marlins move Hanley Ramirez to another position?

• 03 FIP and ERA

• 03 Do MLB teams know how to treat their fans?

• 03 Sending the runner from 3B

• 03 The Case for the DH

• 03 Richie Sexson

• 03 HR on 0-2 count, to give the team the lead

• 03 The Great Clutch Project has started

• 02 Community Forecast, 2007 - Pitcher Results

• 02 Aristotle, Casablanca, and Win Probability?

• 02 Getting to Know wOBA

• 02 Bill James talks to Freakonomics readers

• 02 Blackout

• 02 BIS v PITCHf/x

• 01 The fastest players

• 01 Cross-checking the data providers