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Managers and the Pythagorean Theorem

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

It’s been a while since I actually played around with some Retrosheet files.  Time for some good old-fashioned research, this time on a question that has bugged Sabermetricians (and some mainstream folks) for a while.  Do Pythagorean residuals tell us much of anything about a manager?
A little bit of set up: a little while ago, […]

Poor Matt Cain

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Matt Cain was flat out awesome in 2007.  He pitched 200 innings, surrendering only 173 hits.  He also struck out 163 batters and posted a 3.65 ERA.  In fact, of pitchers with 200 or more innings, the only one who gave up less hits than Cain was Cy Young winner Jake Peavy.  And, Cain’s 3.65 […]

Tales of the cutter: an analysis of Joakim Soria

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I don’t know any other major league pitcher who relies on his cut fastball to nearly the same extent as Mariano Rivera, but there are many pitchers who use a cutter to some degree. Most of them, like Josh Beckett, merely put a little “cut” on a fastball now and then, and it’s debatable […]

Tales of the cutter: Mariano Rivera

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

I have a twenty-month-old son, and one of his favorite books is Moo, Baa, La, La, La! I’ve read it with him so much that it informs my other thoughts, including those about baseball, apparently. The first page of the book says, “A cow says moo.” Next, “A sheep says baa.” […]

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