Possible Outcomes of the Tanaka Deal
Masahiro Tanaka‘s contract with the Yankees has gotten a lot of attention already. Dave Cameron at Fangraphs had a nice overview of it that can be found …
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January 31, 2014 Why the Rockies Aren’t Crazy After All
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January 30, 2014 Comparing Javier Baez and Carlos Correa
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January 30, 2014 Q&A with B.B. Abbott of Jet Sports Management
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January 29, 2014 An Inside Look at Several Questionable Offseason Decisions
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January 28, 2014 Possible Outcomes of the Tanaka Deal
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Player Analysis
The Biggest BABIP Winners and Losers of 2013
Some are quick to point to a reason as to why a player failed or succeeded: they didn’t pan out as a prospect, they’re getting …
Phasing Out the Franchise – Derek Jeter’s Final Season?
From the time he became the Yankees’ starting shortstop in 1996, Derek Jeter has established himself as one of the greatest, most iconic, and most …
Remembering Alex Rodriguez as a Player
Arbitrator Frederic Horowitz recently handed down a 162 game suspension for Alex Rodriguez for his violation of the Joint Drug Agreement. If the New York Yankees make the playoffs, Rodriguez …
Team Construction
Why the Rockies Aren’t Crazy After All
I thought it’d be best to wrap up this three-part series using tools like marginal win value (part 1) to explain questionable offseason moves (part 2) with …
An Inside Look at Several Questionable Offseason Decisions
After explaining marginal win value and the updated dollars per win stat in Part 1, I thought it’d be appropriate to look at some of …
Marginal Win Value and Dollars Per Win
It is quite natural to spawn opinions on offseason moves that eventually manifest into conclusions that the general manager of Team A is a moron …
Prospects
Comparing Javier Baez and Carlos Correa
On Monday, Baseball Prospectus published its annual and much anticipated Top 101 Prospects, in which five of the top seven prospects were all shortstops. The …
Player Report: Edwin Escobar, LHP (SF, AA)
Mike is currently a senior at Cornell University where he is majoring in Industrial Labor Relations and minoring in economics. He has spent the past …
Player Report: Eric Jagielo, 3B (NYY, A-)
Mike is currently a senior at Cornell University where he is majoring in Industrial Labor Relations and minoring in economics. He has spent the past …
Sabermetric Research
Characterizing the Sustainability of Left on Base Percentage
In my last article, I found that mainstream pitcher WAR calculations (fWAR, rWAR, and WARP) disagree on how to value two pitching statistics that include …
“Expected Hitting”: motivation plus a refinement on HR weighting
A topic that has really captured my interest, over the past six months or so, is the idea of luck-neutralized hitting stats. (“xHitting,” as I’ve …
Comparing the Three WAR Measures, Part II
In my debut article last week for Batting Leadoff, I started to analyze trends in the three major WAR sources (Fangraphs’ fWAR, Baseball-Reference’s rWAR, and …
History
The Top 5 Individual Seasons by Canadian Baseball Players
Canada has produced more than its share of quality baseball talent throughout the last century-and-a-half. Though the number of baseball stars will likely never (read: …
Jose Fernandez Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
Jose Fernandez was great in 2013. Prior to the season, the 20-year had not pitched above High-A, and had fewer than 140 professional innings. Armed with …
Randy Johnson and The Best Pitching Duels of the Last 20 Years
Pitching duels, many fans will say they’re what baseball is all about. MLB.com introduced their Ace-Off feature this past season in an attempt to designate the …