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World Series Batting Order Optimizer: Philadelpha Phillies
Game One of the 2009 World Series ended with the Phillies (mainly Cliff Le) dominating the Yankees in a complete game. The batting order for the Yankees didn't quite match what I recommended for them ...
Revisiting the Myth of the RBI Guy (Revisited), Part Two: Situational Hitting and RE24
In last week's post on the Myth of the RBI Guy, I used a crude method inspired by Jonah Keri's piece in Baseball Between the Numbers to generate groups of individual seasons by players since 1...
Revisiting the Myth of the RBI Guy, Part One
If that's one of my worst mistakes -- to sign somebody who has 20 home runs and 97 RBIs -- I'll take it. -Royals' General Manager Dayton Moore, on Jose Guillen's 2008 performance. Everyone knows that ...
VORP and You: A brief explanation on why you should care.
<!--StartFragment--> <!--StartFragment--> Baseball is measured at its most fundamental level by runs and outs. Obviously, runs are the key to winning a baseball game, whether that comes in th...
JustVORP versus Just VORP: The (Sort of) Big Rundown
As one of Baseball Prospectus' flagship stats, VORP (Value Over Replacement Player) is probably best known to the general public as some nerdly invention that infuriates crusty old deans sports ...
Introducing JustVORP
One of the most popular sabermetric statistics ever invented is VORP, Baseball Prospectus' measure of offensive value over replacement player. Not only does it measure offense, it compares each ...
Mets Batter VORP By Decade
I'm having a difficult time remembering a more excruciatingly slow offseason than this one. Not only are the rumors of bottom-shelf sexiness, but they're all so embarrassingly off-base that a vast sea...
Spreadsheet Baseball: Catching A Cold...Again
I've been therapeutically playing the Blue Album and Pinkerton all day to try and take the sting out of how thoroughly farking mediocre Weezer's latest effort is. Yes, I realize probably no one e...
Orioles VORP numbers
Just for kicks, since I looked over the catchers, here's a look at the VORP numbers for all the O's. If you're still unfamiliar with what, exactly, VORP is, then here's a quick primer: Value Over Rep...
Joba Chamberlain: An Elite Starting Pitcher?
On yesterday's ESPN Fantasy Focus 20080620 (click to open in your media player), hosts Matthew Berry and Nate Ravitz asked each other whether the other thought New York Yankees' ace-in-the-making Joba...
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