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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Can We Explain the Ichiro Slump?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Explaining the Ichiro SlumpIchiro Suzuki has taken a wrong turn on the road to Cooperstown
His BA is .257 a little off from a career average of .332
Ichiro’s OBP is .319 which has brought his career number down to .378
So what is the problem? Let’s look at his Pitch Data Summary courtesy of
the Baseball Reference.
Ichiro is […]

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The USA Needs to Retire the Penny and Baseball Needs to Retire BA

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Bill Baer makes this modest proposal in an article on the baseball digest daily blog.
If you look at the formula for batting average and on-base percentage, you’ll find that BA (hits divided by at-bats) is in OBP ([hits plus walks plus hit-by-pitches] divided by [at-bats plus walks plus hit by pitches plus sacrifice flies])!As a […]

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Bill James Wants My $3. Why He Isn’t Getting It. Yet…

Friday, April 11, 2008

After waiting for months for Bill James Online to launch, I was taken aback as if I was facing chin music from a hungover Bob Gibson.
The man wants three dollars. And he wants it every  month or else…
Bill run ads. You would make more money. Three dollars a month is a velvet rope.
Bill gets stats but I […]

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Nats GM, Jim Bowden’s $10M Boob Job

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Last summer Nats’ GM Jim Bowden, the omnipresent egomaniac, decided to give Dmitri “Hot Plate” Young a $10 million contract. Young was in the middle of earning the NL’s Comeback Player Of the Year, that much is true, but why give a huge contract to someone who could have been signed for less at the end […]

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Bay Area Teams Trim Payrolls for 2008

Friday, April 4, 2008

The Bay area has  seen a precipitous drop in MLB salaries as both franchises are trimming payrolls and probably wins for the 2008 season. The San Francisco Giants sans Barry Bonds has seen their 2007 team salary decrease from $90,219.056 to the relatively paltry  $76,594,500.
The Oakland A’s (a  Billy Beane Money Ball franchise) $79,366,940 in 2007 salaries […]

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