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<title><![CDATA[Trading walks for singles, Cooperstown-style]]></title>
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I'm not sure how much it costs to access Bill James' website, but I'm pretty sure his recent four-part series on the 2011 Hall of Fame ballot is alone...]]></description>
<pubDate>January 21, 2011 10:27:25 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can Bill James see 2016?]]></title>
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Sean McAdam on the Red Sox doing their homework:  Before the Red Sox gave Carl Crawford a seven-year, $142 million deal, they made sure to do their h...]]></description>
<pubDate>December 14, 2010 09:01:40 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monday Mendozas]]></title>
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Today's links almost didn't bother, because all the new news is about Derek Jeter and even that's not really new news. But the blog is a harsh mistres...]]></description>
<pubDate>November 29, 2010 00:44:31 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bill James on King Felix's time]]></title>
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It's subscriber-only and I don't even know if I'm supposed to do this, but Bill James runs through the math, finds that CC Sabathia was probably close...]]></description>
<pubDate>November 22, 2010 12:08:54 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Let's not call the whole (BABiP) thing off]]></title>
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You like potato,  I like potahto...  From the mailbag at Bill James' subscriber-only site:  Hey, Bill: You wrote "Please stop saying 'BABIP'; it'...]]></description>
<pubDate>October 22, 2010 10:27:39 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wednesday Wangdoodles]]></title>
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Today's links are beginning to worry that the games in San Francisco this weekend won't mean nearly as much as they'd hoped ...  Your Must-Read of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>September 29, 2010 08:00:49 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tuesday Taters]]></title>
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Today's links should go down easy, like Oleo wrapped in Grade A molasses ...  This is ostensibly about Babe Ruth, Roger Clemens, and (most of all) ...]]></description>
<pubDate>September 14, 2010 01:29:09 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[James (and Neyer) on modern fielding stats]]></title>
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From Nick Piecoro's (previously linked) interview with my ex-employer:  How much confidence do you have in the Fielding Bible data?  I'm confident...]]></description>
<pubDate>March 26, 2010 09:18:58 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Sabermetrics' (the word) remains free to all]]></title>
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All's well that ends well:  The widely used baseball term "sabermetrics" will not be trademarked, and will instead remain in the public domain.  T...]]></description>
<pubDate>February 08, 2010 17:17:43 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monday Mendozas]]></title>
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Between what's happening in Haiti and the nature of today's holiday, I'll skip the pithy intro today.  * Bill James gets the Emil Fuchs Award and ta...]]></description>
<pubDate>January 18, 2010 01:46:42 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monday Mendozas]]></title>
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Today's links do not come straight from Waxahachie, Texas ... but someday, I hope. Someday.  * According to this, Bill James says Andre Dawson belon...]]></description>
<pubDate>January 11, 2010 01:29:06 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Do both Cy Youngs signal shift?]]></title>
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It's just one year. I'm not quite ready to declare that the paradigm has shifted.  As I wrote a few months ago, Bill James' method to predict Cy You...]]></description>
<pubDate>November 19, 2009 11:36:25 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wednesday Wangdoodles]]></title>
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Today's links would undoubtedly rank No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, if only they were a book ...  * The 2010 edition of The Bill James...]]></description>
<pubDate>November 11, 2009 07:59:06 PST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Francona managing by the numbers?]]></title>
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John Harper on the surprise ending to the Red Sox&#x26;#39;s season: The Red Sox love their numbers, we know that. Bill James, the godfather of sabermetri...]]></description>
<pubDate>October 13, 2009 11:21:51 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Friday Filberts]]></title>
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I hope you love the smell of links in the morning as much as I do ...  &#x26;bull; Joe Posnanski on Pete Rose, Bill James, and forensic narcissism.  &#x26;bul...]]></description>
<pubDate>August 27, 2009 23:30:56 PDT</pubDate>
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