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2012

July, 2012

• 31 Who’s Olympic body are you most like?

• 31 Replacement level players… and swimmers!

• 31 Teaching kids how to be street-smart… and stop making them textbook-smart

• 30 PITCHf/x Summit

• 30 Net Asset Value Primer

• 30 Breaking FIP

• 30 Useless

• 30 When “much” just scratches the surface

• 30 Do pitchers need time to get ready?

• 30 How much can a lefty pitcher help you to avoid the steal in a high leverage situation?

• 29 Isn’t how they calculate a pitcher’s W/L record wonderful?

• 29 What kind of 0-2 pitch is this?

• 27 A+ student, initially given a C+, changed to a B: not good enough, lawsuit follows

• 27 Strasburg is a great… hitter?

• 26 Run Distributions

• 26 Velocity Loss: transient or persistent?

• 26 Kim Ng, game-changer

• 25 NBA database

• 25 Free agent insanity?  Or Cole Hamels genius?

• 24 Double-counting to pretend you are not using a single measure

• 24 More replay: not if, but what

• 24 Efficient pitchers

• 24 SportsYapper

• 24 Numbers, numbers, words

• 24 Tier-droppers

• 23 Is Ichiro like Ray Bourque?

• 23 Effect of Jon Stewart

• 23 PITCHf/x splits

• 23 MLB and Dominican Republic

• 23 How much would it cost MLB to lift their blackout policy?

• 22 How does the judge’s order apply to the victim?

• 20 Slot value totals

• 20 Daredevil Felix?  Felix channels inner Cliff Lee?

• 20 Strasburg will get pulled when Rizzo says so

• 19 How underpaid are NHL superstars?

• 19 The Dark Knight Rises reviews controversy

• 19 NHL opens CBA talks with Fehr

• 19 Jack Jablonski

• 19 Brendan Ryan

• 18 Lebron Lin

• 18 Shared Fielding Zones

• 18 Random variation of batted balls (hitters AND fielders)

• 18 Book for Underappreciated Great Players

• 18 Competitive Balance picks

• 17 Do you wave the go-ahead run in the top of the 9th?

• 17 Aaron Cook, batting tee

• 17 Can’t fielding systems just get along?

• 17 Updated r=.50 numbers

• 16 Breaking Bad

• 14 Reader Mail of the Day: run value of Ground-rule double

• 14 Terry Appleby

• 13 Hitters who have a higher talent level than we thought

• 13 Do Tommy John pitchers substantially change their style with the game on the line?

• 13 Ubaldo Lincecum = Cole Hamels?

• 13 Strasburg’s pre-existing condition, and his insurance policy

• 13 IMDB’s best superhero movies

• 12 Ridiculous grades = Sublime articles

• 12 Mariner Blogger Day

• 12 WPA insights

• 12 Data, singular, plural

• 12 Freeh Report: Paterno’s legacy

• 12 Accountability of scouts

• 11 Amazon Purchases

• 11 Spider-Man reboot

• 11 PITCHf/x profiles

• 11 Tech: Suggest a Web Host

• 11 Punching inanimate objects is an Assumed Risk?

• 11 Park factors that affect outcomes

• 10 Million-dollar discovery of baseball cards in the attic

• 10 Baseball at speed of light

• 10 Momentum, shmomentum

• 10 Will MLBPA demand revenue-splitting?

• 10 Glen Perkins, saberist

• 10 Impact of Hit and Run

• 09 Lowest RA9 in past 365 days

• 09 Sabermetric glasses

• 09 Slidin’ Billy Hamilton

• 08 Geographical realignment

• 06 Psst… wanna work at Bloomberg Sports?

• 03 Strasburg 68

• 03 Andrelton Simmons

• 01 Safeco being Petco?