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Just wanted to let everyone know that starting January 4th I will be writing a weekly baseball column (sometimes twice weekly if I am feeling especially opinionated) at Beyond the Box Score. Beyond the Box Score is a fantastic site, examining baseball from an analytical perspective. The authors definitely embrace sabermetrics, but they don’t beat [...]
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(This article originally appeared at Beyond the Box Score, where I am now a regular contributor) 2010 marks the end of the “ought” decade for Major League Baseball. I thought I would take the opportunity to analyze the last 10 years by visualizing team data. I used Tableau Public to create the visualization and pulled team [...]
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I am sure many people will be writing and speaking about Bob Feller this morning, as the baseball hall of famer passed away last night at the age of 92. (Here is some great old black and white footage of Feller). Feller was blessed with arguably the greatest fastball in major league history, breaking into [...]
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Alan Schwarz’s The Numbers Game is an indispensable look at how the numbers that have come to define the game of baseball came to be. The book is less about the hallowed numbers that even casual fans can identify; Aaron’s 755 home runs, DiMaggio’s 56 game hit-streak, Nolan Ryan’s 5714 strikeouts, Cy Young’s 511 wins, Pete Rose’s [...]
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There is quite a lot of buzz surrounding the AL Cy Young award this year. While there are a number of pitchers that possess a high number of wins (17, 18, 19, and even 20 games), there are many who believe the award should go to Seattle’s Felix Hernandex. Despite only winning 13 games and [...]
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J.C. Bradbury is skeptical that as currently practiced, MLB’s revenue sharing system has had an appreciable impact on the competitive balance of the league: [C]ompetitive balance improved from the 1930s until leveling off in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Much of this improvement was likely a natural consequence of more high-quality talent becoming available to more [...]
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That’s one way to interpret Zack Greinke’s claiming of the award for 2009: It was not surprising that Greinke won, since his earned run average, 2.16, was the lowest in the American League since 2000. But his decisive margin of victory over Seattle’s Felix Hernandez was a sign that voters overlooked his deficiency in another [...]
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For those that follow the debate around Michael Lewis’ Moneyball and its effect on front office strategy there is a fantastic article over at The Hardball Times. For the uninitiated, Moneyball follows Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane during the summer of 2002 as the team attempted to implement a different strategy to make his [...]
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It has been said by smarter people than I that the single biggest reason for the NY Yankees’ post-season success since the mid-1990′s is the pitching of Mariano Rivera. Already a sure-fire Hall of Famer, Rivera’s performance over 88 post-season games is astounding. Last week, the NY Times published an article examining Rivera’s future. The [...]
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[Fair warning: what follows is quite lengthy] Well, it is performance review time at work and this reminded me of a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while. An issue that has always interested me is how organizations measure individual performance. Organizations have finite resources and therefore must deploy those resources in the [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
