THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2008

May, 2008

• 31 Do speedy outfielders (and those with good arms) save extra-base hits?

• 30 Mets should try The Book rotation

• 30 Linear Win Shares

• 30 Barry Bonds, Bill James, and me

• 30 Jeter can field a team of nine, plus a designated hitter

• 30 Just put me on TV for one game (that’s all I would last anyway)...

• 30 The Most (in)Complete Hitter in Baseball is…

• 29 This week in player cowardice…

• 29 Good and bad pitchers’ hitting

• 29 The Pace of a Game

• 29 Inside a trade (and a FIP sighting)

• 28 Is Willy Randolph to Blame for the Mets’ poor record and performance?

• 27 Welcome Jay Paradise to the PITCHf/x world

• 27 Make pro athletes return their scholarships

• 27 Craig Wright, Coors, and the Humidor

• 27 The intangibles of prospects

• 27 Aging Curves for Fastball Speeds

• 26 Evaluating the team forecasts so far

• 26 Rebutting MGL’s Walk article

• 26 What exacty did Lester and Davis do to deserve “hero” status?

• 25 It is official:  A major league manager (claims that he) has read The Book.

• 24 Chance of Scoring by Base/Out, Retrosheet Years

• 24 Taking on 3-1: What are they thinking?

• 23 Web Admin: Adding Categories

• 23 Size of parks and talent: Be careful about what you are pretty sure is true…

• 22 Texas sect: Sanity prevails in the (activist) courts.  For the time being at least.

• 22 Junk Mail

• 21 ESPN’s Fan Satisfaction Rankings

• 21 Fangraphs: exciting games of the day

• 21 The Race Card

• 20 Most pitches in an inning

• 20 Chemistry

• 20 Superstitions, real or not? “It is not clear.”

• 19 Live-to-tape broadcasts with the ending pre-known

• 19 Colored goalie pads

• 19 Is Cliff Lee on a 6-1 streak, or a 0-1 slump?

• 19 Deconstructing Equivalent Runs (EqR)

• 19 Some of the things you wanted to know about Regression Toward The Mean, and didn’t know how to ask

• 18 Financial data for the Yankees

• 16 When to walk ‘em…

• 16 Boring college professors say of surfing students:

• 16 Scouting Mussina

• 15 Deconstructing the Passing Paradox

• 15 Place Hitting

• 14 Another article about when current season stats become “real” (or something like that)

• 14 Do hard throwers perform better than expected than soft throwers?

• 14 Curveball v Fastball

• 14 If I worked for a team and was allowed to do whatever I wanted (and they actually listened)....

• 14 Letting pitchers bat: It never ceases to amaze me…

• 13 Make me a deal for Leverage Index

• 13 Pitcher wearing down

• 13 PITCHf/x Summit Recap and Presentations

• 12 Mailbags on Parade

• 12 Quick Park Factors

• 12 What does it mean when a batter has had a bad or good April?

• 11 Streaks: Has the whole world lost its collective mind?

• 09 Be Jolly stats users

• 09 By The Numbers

• 09 Playbook on Maddux v Molina

• 09 Amount of regression: Here is an interesting question having to do with one of the other threads…

• 09 Ninth Inning: Game theory, C.J. Wilson, and Adrian Beltre

• 08 Distributing excess wins and losses in Win Shares

• 08 Bill Werber

• 08 Why is offense so much higher in the NL so far this year?

• 07 Please explain: Kevin Jarvis

• 07 Can we be frank about the Democratic candidate for POTUS?

• 06 Get The Book

• 06 Pitchers WAR Aging Curves: 5 year forecast

• 06 A Sober Buzz Bizz

• 05 Academics need to know about Angel Hernandez

• 05 Race Report Card

• 05 How can the inputs remain the same, but the outputs change?

• 03 Help with Homework (Permutations)

• 03 What can happen when you take a team’s stats too seriously, while ignoring player projections

• 02 What do good and bad starts by pitchers tell us?

• 02 Cliff Lee’s hot start: You wanted crap/yap from a premium writer….

• 01 The definition of know: What the…?

• 01 Mike’s Hard Lemonade

• 01 BE Press