The Beginning Of A New Era, Courtesy Of MLBAM
The goal of sabermetrics, as many of us enthusiasts believe, is to become as objective as possible in regards to baseball knowledge. In terms of offensive measures, we’ve made a whole lot of progress....
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The History of Pitchers as Position Players
The various projection systems are the closest we can come to predicting the future. I was thinking of what they currently lack, and the first thing that came to mind was pitchers as batters. I then...
View ArticleWhere do Teams Find Closers?
It’s well-known in sabermetric circles that ponying up big bucks for a closer is folly of the worst sort. Judging by this offseason, it appears that major league front offices have caught on. Simply...
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Fantasy Value Above Replacement for Pitchers
In previous posts I explained fantasy value above replacement (FVAR) for hitters. Now I’d like to walk through the steps for calculating pitcher FVAR. Pitcher FVAR is quite different than hitter FVAR...
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Does an Organization’s Approach at the Plate Matter?
The sabermetric community within baseball has widely accepted the theory that a team that is more selective at the plate will, over the aggregate, score more runs. It is a very simple idea in which...
View ArticleA Possibly Historic Season for Jose Fernandez
Coming into the 2014 season, predictions for the NL Cy Young were pretty unanimous: Clayton Kershaw (I’m not going to lie, I chose him too). But since that point Kershaw has missed nearly a whole month...
View ArticleAn Update on Positional Adjustment
Positional adjustment has always been a point of contention about WAR. While most understand the principle of positional adjustment, I doubt that anyone has really scrutinized the process behind the...
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Determinants of Free Agent Position-Player Salaries: Part II
Last week, I introduced the topic of Free Agent position-player salaries in a post that can be found here. Today, I will address two questions: 1. How do teams weigh positional differences? Some...
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Can pitchers really control doubles and triples? xbFIP, continued
In my last post, I introduced my new metric: xbFIP. Expected-ballpark, extra-base, fielding independent pitching is my take on FIP. Fielding independent pitching was created, as I outlined in my last...
View ArticleDeterminants of Free Agent Position-Player Salaries: Part III
Over the past few weeks, I have begun to tackle the topic of how position-players are valued on the Free Agent market. In Part I, I introduced the topic and the dataset used for the study, as well as...
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