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zenax replied to the thread My Ideal Metric - TOTAL bases.Has anyone looked at Team Win Probability (bb-ref)? It is available by players with a team under Detailed Stats when you select Batting... -
zenax replied to the thread Day Baseball Today, 2024 Edition.There were five games played on Wednesday and three of the visiting teams will be playing in a different city today (one of them ending...
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zenax replied to the thread If you were a ballplayer....I threw a split-finger fastball back in the late 1950s. I had been trying to throw a forkball but couldn't get a downward break so I...
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zenax replied to the thread Raptors' Jontay Porter banned from NBA for betting on games.How long before gamblers start going after official scorers; game officials...call a hit an error or vice versa, call a foul, etc.?
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zenax replied to the thread My Ideal Metric - TOTAL bases.Doesn't it need to be tied to league stats to be useful? Go back to a year like 1930. The NL: .303/.360/.448/.808 and AL...
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zenax replied to the thread The Frailty of the Modern Pitcher.In 1992, SABR published volume iii of Minor League Baseball Stars and in the prologue, while talking about minor league pitchers in the...
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zenax replied to the thread My Ideal Metric - TOTAL bases.The question is with a new 'stat' is how well it predicts something.
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zenax replied to the thread Dalbec sent down to AAA (recalled to BOS on 4/12).According to...
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zenax replied to the thread 4/14 Galileo's Well-Handled Balls. . ..Apparently I am not the only one. See High Heat Stats -- The 0 for 40 Club I should also have mentioned that High Heat Stats has a...
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zenax replied to the thread 4/14 Galileo's Well-Handled Balls. . ..Dalbec is now 0 for 31 going back to the end of the 2023 season.
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zenax replied to the thread The Fenway Park Experience.I find the seating at Fenway Park uncomfortable; one reason being that I've been 6'4" since I was 14. While I haven't been to a large...
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zenax replied to the thread The Homefield disadvantage.The Sox are hitting .164/.225/.273/.498 at home (4 games) and .248/.324/.402 on the road (games). And their relief pitcher have an...
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zenax replied to the thread Grading the Umps - March/April.I had access back in 2007 with efforts to build a system and they don't seem to have gotten very far yet.
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zenax replied to the thread Grading the Umps - March/April.In other words, make the strike zone two-dimensional?
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zenax replied to the thread Grading the Umps - March/April.A pitch traveling 90 mph as it approaches the front of home plate is traveling more than 40 thousand millimeters per second. How well...