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2010

June, 2010

• 28 Wisdom according to Tim McCarver…

• 26 Should batters automatically take with a 3-0 count, close game, and RISP?

• 25 Is there a minimum below which you should not forecast a pitcher’s ERA?

• 25 The Blogosphere’s biggest team fans

• 25 Soccermetrics

• 25 Rob Neyer’s RSS Feed

• 24 Little Leaguers left behind

• 24 Anatomy of baserunning in Anaheim

• 24 Individualized Won-Loss Records Website

• 24 Introductions: Strasburg, BABIP… BABIP, Strasburg

• 24 Craig Wright

• 23 Reader Mail of the Day: Historical Win Rates

• 23 Ich bin ein Amerikaner

• 23 Is there a positive or negative correlation between signing bonuses for draftees and veteran MLBer?

• 23 The 7-inning pythag

• 23 Strasburg’s PITCHf/x after 5 games

• 23 A new thread on the “hot hand” for starting pitchers during a game…

• 22 Poisson soccer

• 22 Role Models

• 22 Scientific Baseall

• 22 Dwight Evans v Jim Rice

• 22 Out rate on groundballs over the season

• 21 SABR 40 - Alan Nathan, Dave Allen, Josh Kalk, et al

• 21 FIFA Monarchy of edicts and proclamations continues

• 21 Orphan

• 21 To Shift or not To Shift

• 21 Man advantage numbers in soccer

• 21 If we can’t trust a manager or pitching coach to know when a pitcher “has it” or not…

• 20 Poll: Strasburg v Cliff Lee

• 20 GoodReads.com

• 19 Should a starter who is pitching a shutout stay in the game?

• 18 Is FIFA being run by Gary Bettman?

• 18 An interview the way a saberist would conduct it

• 18 World Cup odds

• 18 Reader Mail of the Day: Effect of BABIP on ERA

• 18 Legacy of NBA Oklahoma team

• 18 Sexiest sports reporters

• 17 Japanese pitch counts

• 17 MLB business documents

• 17 Jimenez’s luck

• 17 Strasburg has the best stuff?

• 17 The next Ensberg challenge

• 17 Phil being Phil

• 17 WAR aging curves, with no survivor bias issue

• 16 Pedro

• 16 Sons of Anarchy

• 16 Saberist Ari Kaplan with the Cubs

• 16 Bunting a runner from 2B to 3B with 0 outs in the first inning

• 16 Past history v Future story

• 16 The problem with saberists

• 15 Reader Mail of the Day: Environment impacting events

• 15 Mailing-it-in article on the All-Star Game

• 15 You need to throw 27 mph to reach home plate

• 15 Individualized Won-Loss Records

• 15 Ensberg is our champion

• 14 Reason number 8,176 why ex-players, even great ones, are not ex-perts…

• 14 Choke effect in soccer

• 14 Poll: Strasburg’s Pessimistic REST OF SEASON ERA (part 2)

• 13 Soccer shooting, by location

• 13 Game-leadoff OBP

• 13 Question of the night (day)...

• 13 “Don’t make the 1st or 3rd out at third base” doesn’t really mean, “Don’t…”

• 12 How do morning-type and night-owls pitch in the day and night?

• 12 Pitching 101

• 11 Game-state version of wOBA

• 11 Don’t let the president / commissioner hand out the trophy

• 11 People who like Anthony Giacalone and Joe Hamrahi also like…

• 10 Everything you wanted to know about revenue sharing

• 10 Capitalism, unless I’m unduly affected.. then it’s socialism

• 10 Does Sportsbook know about Strasburg’s pitch count limit?

• 10 True talent all-stars

• 10 Switch-hitters batting same-handed against changeup pitchers

• 10 Basic Strategy: baserunning with 0 outs

• 10 The Last Expos player

• 10 Figuring out command

• 10 Shouldn’t the manager of a sabermetric team know whether his opponents are good or not?

• 10 Regression equation for types of pitches versus platoon ratio

• 09 Thank you Bob Costas

• 09 Poll: Strasburg’s Pessimistic REST OF SEASON ERA

• 09 Strasburg f/x

• 08 The Individual Perfect Game

• 08 Danvenport Translations: Strasburg

• 08 What management thinks

• 08 Game theory on 3-2 counts

• 08 “I just know that I got lucky 27 times.”

• 08 Perfect Game calculation

• 08 For a free autographed copy of The Book…

• 08 Should the Nats convert Harper to the OF?

• 08 I thought this was a good enough quote to merit its own thread

• 07 The Book - book review

• 07 Fantasy FIP

• 07 BPro 2010

• 07 Bloggers all over the service-time issue

• 07 The Closed Period

• 07 Can someone please make a schedule like this?

• 07 PITCHf/x, R, and XML Package

• 06 Perfection lost late

• 06 Justin Morneau is the new Barry Bonds?

• 06 What could a team possibly see in Willis?

• 05 Korean Boxscore

• 05 Reason #13 why Maddon is…

• 05 Why managers don’t utilize their bullpen’s optimally…

• 04 Friday Mail: Sabermetric licence plate

• 04 MLB is pretty well balanced compared to other sports

• 04 Baserunning path

• 04 The Earned Perfect Game

• 04 Sending the runners home

• 04 Enuf is enuf. Enough is too much.

• 03 Rany and Bill James

• 03 No, no, no, no, NO!  (Part 2)

• 03 What are the odds?

• 03 Clutchy Eckstein

• 03 Denkinger’s Law

• 03 My brief take on “the call”

• 03 Dear MLB

• 02 Reason #12 why I think Joe Maddon is an idiot…

• 02 Win Probability for college basketball

• 02 The most valuable pitchers in baseball

• 02 The genius of Brian Bannister

• 02 Workhorses

• 02 Launch angle + Speed off the bat = trajectory

• 02 Verlander or Strasburg, part 2

• 02 Too hot to work here… you’re fired!

• 02 Poll: Survivor-Pitcher Island

• 02 Weird walkoffs

• 02 Psst… wanna work for the Yankees?

• 01 “My stats”: Custom Dashboard

• 01 Standards for PITCHf/x viewpoint: catcher or pitcher?

• 01 The quality of line drives is not strained

• 01 Alternating v Randomizing

• 01 Replica tickets

• 01 Philosophical forecasting

• 01 Forcing the opposing manager to walk Pujols