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  1. OttoC

    Buchholz and his cutter

    Nick Carfardo, in his Sunday Globe column (8/24), wrote this:   One National League scout who has watched Buchholz lately said he can’t believe how “cutter-happy” the righthander has become. “That pitch has sunk so many pitchers,” said the scout. “Buchholz has more talent than most of the...
  2. OttoC

    Neighborhood play

    First of all, it is not a written rule and if players ran the route that their slide takes, they would be called out for interference. You have players who are reaching out with their arm for the base while their feet are some 7-8 feet out of the base path trying to prevent the fielder from...
  3. OttoC

    The future of baseball

    I know that the NFL has cracked down on entering its stadiums but I hadn't realized that MLB had gotten this far--metal detectors, wands, pat downs--until I went to a game at Minute Maid Park in Houston last week. That was more than I went through at the airport  
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    Yaz's grandson hits for cycle

    Mike Yastrzemski, playing for the Frederick Keys in the Carolina League (Class-A, Orioles) hit for the cycle in the 17-3 beating of the Lynchburg Hillcats. He was 3 for 4 when he came up in the 7th and stopped at second for his "second" double, not knowing he needed a triple. Strangely enough...
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    A little on bullpen usage

      This is through game 84 (i.e., doesn't include last night) and shows the projected games and inning pitched for 162 games for the six remaining bullpen pitchers with any significant amount of games pitched. There are also bar charts showing the pitchers' appearances based on team games. The...
  6. OttoC

    Firefox spell check no longer works?

    Spell check doesn't work any more in posts/replies. Why?
  7. OttoC

    Problems dismounting USB drives

    Very recently, my computer (Win 7 Home 64-bit) has been telling me that the device is in use whenever I try to eject a thumb drive or an external hard drive. Bringing up Task Manager show no open applications whenever this happens and I cannot pin it down to the many Processes or Services...
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    Toggle not working

    Why is Toggle not working to close various forums? Signed out, signed back in and now I can't close forums I never visit when I click on the Minus sign. Using latest FireFox.
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    A look at BBA's pre-season Top-100 from 1990 through 2013

    In 24 years of rankings, there obviously were 2400 players ranked; however, since some players were ranked in more than one year, there were only 1363 different players (after determining players with same names). There have been 16 players who were ranked in the Top-100 in 5 different seasons...
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    Looking statistically at BABIP in Minors

    Interesting article on milb.com, "Examining just how 'lucky' baseball's top players were in 2013."   http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140114&content_id=64606134&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb   The article says that using BABIP data to predict regression to the mean is more useful...
  11. OttoC

    HRs by Red Sox pitchers and men on base in 2013

    This is a listing of home runs given up by Red Sox pitchers and men on base during the 2013 regular season. ROB is obviously Runners on Base and you can see from the right-hand side of this table that the club did very well in not giving up homers while runners were on base. I did not bother to...
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