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Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...From Malcolm Gladwell's preface: "This is the basketball version of the old Baseball Abstracts that Bill James used to put out in the 1980s." Well, that's not exactly right. This is the...
Blog | November 20, 2009Back where I belong
Gordon Edes...1933. The owner was Jacob Ruppert. The second-to-worst thing about baseball in the '30s, Bill James wrote, was the domination by the New York teams (the worst thing was segregation). No charity...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009Do both Cy Youngs signal shift?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...quite ready to declare that the paradigm has shifted. As I wrote a few months ago, Bill James' method to predict Cy Young Awards has always worked quite well, even in recent seasons. The...
Blog | November 19, 2009Tracy and Scioscia the easy choices
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotNo real surprises here, huh? Jim Tracy of Colorado has won the NL Manager of the Year award and Mike Scioscia of the Los Angeles Angels has been sel...
Blog | November 18, 2009Greinke learns from the nerds?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotIn a blog post trumpeting the accomplishments of Brett Anderson, I mentioned Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) in passing, and a couple of commenter...
Blog | November 18, 2009College Hoops: Heads Up! Tigers-Jayhawks
Sportscenter...ranked squad in the country. Plus, have you seen Kansas' alumni list? Any school affiliated with James Naismith, Bill James, Rob Neyer and Inigo Montoya has a stockpile of good karma to burn. On the...
Blog | November 17, 2009Stat guys not so monolithic after all
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...see different things. There's this notion floating around that every writer who grew up with Bill James or the InterWeb thinks exactly the same way. Which is just bat-guano crazy
Blog | November 17, 2009Offseason notebook: Hot stove cooking
Tristan H. Cockcroft, ESPN.comTristan H. Cockcroft wraps up many of the early offseason deals, like the J.J. Hardy-Carlos Gomez trade, and what they mean for fantasy owners.
Story | Conversation | November 13, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...New York Times bestseller list, if only they were a book ... * The 2010 edition of The Bill James Handbook is out (yes, already), and I'm sure I'll have more to say about...
Blog | November 11, 2009Bama's middle men can't be overlooked
Todd McShay, Scouts Inc.Scouts Inc.'s Todd McShay breaks down the film and explains why Terrence Cody and Rolando McClain are so dominant up the middle.
Story | Conversation | November 05, 2009
Umpiring is better ... but not better enough
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...umpiring itself, or our ability to judge the umpiring. I happened to run across this, from Bill James' notes (subscription) upon recently watching a 1974 World Series game on TV: 2. The umpiring is...
Blog | November 02, 2009Baseball's next great economic disparity
Buster OlneyBaseball's financial structure appears to have reached a tipping point that can be defined simply. "The arbitration process is now outdated," said a h...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 01, 2009
Breaking down the '09 pitching staff
Jeremy Lundblad, ESPN Stats and InformationBreaking down the '09 Red Sox pitching staff.
Story | Conversation | October 28, 2009Francona managing by the numbers?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...to the Red Sox's season: The Red Sox love their numbers, we know that. Bill James, the godfather of sabermetrics, is a consultant to the organization. GM Theo Epstein is a "...
Blog | October 13, 2009Will Angels run past Yankees?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...discovered just how good the Angels have been this season. Including stolen base attempts -- according to Bill James Online -- the Angels finished the season with a net gain of 96 bases, tops in the...
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