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2009

April, 2009

• 30 Graph differentials

• 30 TV and radio analysts are the same guys that manage teams, at least in the old days…

• 29 Computing Youkilis

• 29 Paying your DH

• 28 First their minds, then their hearts will follow

• 28 Brian Bannister speaks “FIP”

• 28 Money in the bank counts, when looking at your destination

• 28 Batting Order for the Padres

• 27 Historical pitcher WAR

• 27 I have an extra Fielding Bible II and 2009 BP Prospectus Annual (and some other ones)

• 25 Greg Rybarczyk

• 24 Another example of the media and politcians who have no idea what they are talking about…

• 24 Year-by-year LI in the Retro years

• 24 Linear Weights, by pitch location

• 23 Historical WAR for MVP analysis

• 23 HR distribution by pitch location

• 21 Nervous closers

• 21 HR park effects

• 21 The Myth of the President’s Trophy Curse

• 21 Dubious baseball ideas

• 20 3’2” pinch hitters

• 20 Accu-weather is on the case of Yankee Stadium

• 20 Number lists with Joe Poz

• 20 Dual-roled pitchers

• 20 Home field advantage… or road disadvantage?

• 20 Raul Ibanez

• 20 Another article by Eric Walker with which I have some disagreements (imagine that!)

• 18 WSJ.com: Clutch NHL players

• 17 Is recent change in fastball speed an indicator of future success?

• 17 Is the ball juiced again?

• 17 22-yr old athlete for mayor?

• 17 7-2 plus .481 equals .500

• 16 Psst… wanna work for Texas Rangers?

• 16 Are leadoff hitters overvalued?

• 16 Name this blog?

• 16 The Race Database

• 15 Where did Rob Neyer go?

• 15 Blog post of the day

• 15 Ground Rules

• 15 Graphical tool plotting team wins to salary

• 15 Baseball Prospects

• 14 Generating data points to make a normal distribution

• 14 Public v Private Bus service to sporting events

• 14 Is wOBA all it’s cracked up to be?

• 14 The pressure of playing with Tiger Woods… when he’s losing

• 14 WSJ.com

• 13 The new WARP is here!

• 13 Evaluating the 2007/08 Forecasting Systems

• 12 Times Through the Batting Order

• 11 A couple of questions for fantasy baseball players…

• 10 Baseball Families

• 09 Testing run estimators

• 08 Keith Woolner speaks

• 08 Where pitches are thrown -> where balls are hit

• 08 Gambling Escrow Account

• 08 GuyM on JC’s aging study, at Phil’s site

• 07 Field Blobs: Linear Weights by… field location!

• 07 Changing style of play based on score

• 07 Community/Obama Forecast - NCAA Bracket

• 07 Baseball simulators in the front offices

• 07 Inside Gameday 2009

• 07 Bob Geren reads The Book

• 07 Forecasting Playing Time

• 06 NHL’s Plus/Minus, and scoring by number of skaters

• 06 Mariner fans and the 2-hole

• 06 Umpire strike zones by count

• 06 JC

• 06 Sabermetrics meets Twitter

• 05 The New Baseball-Reference is here

• 03 More fantasy Challenge

• 03 Starting from scratch

• 03 Forecasters Challenge 2009 - almost ready

• 03 Book Reviews

• 02 Should your bullpen carry lefties?

• 02 How can the first sentence in a lead story be so bungled?

• 02 MLB Depth Charts

• 02 Bill James Q&A

• 02 QALPAP

• 02 Skip Schumaker

• 02 Matt Wieters and MLEs

• 02 Hardball Premium Service

• 02 MGL in… SI

• 01 Scorecards

• 01 Umpire Zone Evaluation

• 01 Prof Pepper

• 01 Emails

• 01 MGL in ESPN Mag

• 01 Where one goes away, another comes in