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2012

August, 2012

• 31 Device to help your body recover: legal and not PED!

• 31 How much is each pitcher’s BABIP affected by his fielders that day?

• 31 Bleg: Park Factors for TV Show

• 31 Plate Counts

• 31 Hall of Fame Monitor

• 31 These kinds of headlines really piss me off!

• 31 Dumb manager?

• 30 Future of pro sports in Canada

• 30 Platoon splits by GB/FB tendency

• 30 Revenue is revenue

• 29 Dumb and privileged

• 29 Bridge between fWAR and rWAR for pitchers, now on Fangraphs

• 29 Are hitters adapting to Strasburg?

• 29 Players’ Wives

• 28 CBA: NBA = NHL

• 28 Morris v Reuschel

• 28 Nick Punto, footnote

• 28 Pot v Beer

• 28 Apple v Samsung: best that American can give?

• 27 Move over baseball, football is coming

• 27 Messing up Teixeira

• 27 One-run games

• 27 Trevor Bauer

• 26 Don’t remove the human equation!

• 26 “Roger Clemens earns standing ovation”: from regular people, and not Holy Writers, right?

• 25 Best uniforms

• 25 What does 250MM$ buy you?

• 24 Inflexible Strasburg plan

• 24 Poker: skill or chance?

• 24 Pitchers as batters

• 24 Welcome to the “200K with under 500 batters faced” club Aroldis Chapman

• 24 NHL resolution: Playing for the minimum, while they talk

• 24 WAR stories

• 23 “The players make too much money!” says Bettman

• 23 Huge cheating scandal… that we all laugh at

• 23 Metal bats and little kids

• 23 Movies by rating AND rewatchability

• 23 Scouting Report 2012 - By the Fans, For the Fans

• 22 Pythag v Reality

• 22 Are Perfect Games pitched in environments more conducive for low-scoring play?

• 22 Do players who get HBP alot have a different aging curve than others?

• 22 Cape Code League head honchos

• 22 fWAR v rWAR for pitchers: correlating to next year, for pitchers who changed teams

• 22 One of the worst managerial moves I have seen in 40 years watching baseball…

• 21 Butterfly effect in baseballs

• 21 Behind the scenes: White Men Can’t Jump

• 21 Quality role players

• 21 Chin up Todd Akin: you are not alone

• 21 Simple rule to figuring out if you have a good manager

• 20 BattedBall FIP exists

• 20 Is hell ok as a word?

• 20 Punting on fourth downs

• 19 Inconveniently inconvenient context

• 19 Astros being remade in Luhnow’s image

• 19 Melky and the web of lies

• 19 Ebert v Rotten Tomatoes

• 17 Batting practice: tradition or inertia?

• 17 Is SpongeBob gay?

• 17 Scott Boras: Strasburg’s lawyer?

• 17 Expanded replay being tested

• 17 Commissioner fills out the starting lineup?

• 17 Debbie-downer on Felix’s perfect game

• 17 Soccer team releases proprietary data to the public

• 16 Poz speaks on Paterno

• 16 Polish Lancers: long ago enough?

• 16 Holy Writers to Outrage soon: Melky Cabrera likely batting average champion

• 16 Best Team or Dramatic End?

• 16 Perfect

• 15 Did PED failed test really cost Melky tens of millions of dollars?

• 15 Dark Knight Rises

• 15 WAR and salaries

• 15 HP: Hard Disk Failure SMART 301

• 14 As the Redsox turn

• 14 Hidden Game of Pitch Framing

• 14 NHLPA to accept 52% of revenues?

• 14 Is Willie Bloomquist immortal?

• 14 Research Request: impact of veterans on a team

• 13 Cultural bias?

• 13 I’m posting twice as much as I should

• 13 Taylor Grey Meyer: S-ck my nonexistent d-ck

• 13 Fumbles, interception rates, by Yards to goal line

• 13 Is it ok for Zobrist to bunt in the top of the 10th, with 2 on, 0 out, and Longoria on deck?

• 13 Doug Fister: the thinking man’s pitcher, who does it without outside help

• 12 PED?  No, PEK

• 12 Inside the Astros Draft War room

• 11 How a manager can do everything wrong in one PA (and the opposing manager can be just as dizzy)...

• 11 Yu Darvish approach with two strikes

• 11 Swinging at off-speed pitches at 3-0

• 11 Correlating WAR to same-season wins

• 11 Are long-term-big free agent deals bad deals?

• 11 R-squared

• 11 Should you follow WAR blindly?

• 11 Homerun Weather 2012

• 11 Wedding ring GPS tracker?

• 04 Genetically-determined to hit HR?

• 03 Do journalists understand tax deductions?

• 03 Escrow, Or How the Contracted Salary is not the Actual Salary

• 03 Latest on NHL CBA

• 03 History of Star Trek, through the lens of Roger Ebert reviews

• 03 Farhan Zaidi

• 03 Do some teams have better scouts than others?

• 03 Psst… wanna work in the NBA?

• 01 Psst… wanna work for Trackman?

• 01 I can’t stand [metric A] because of [reason B]

• 01 Markov Football

• 01 Leaderboard filters on Fangraphs

• 01 One Drop v Black Friday

• 01 Losing to get a better draw: Smart or Shameful?

• 01 Should you hold a runner on with 2 outs?