New Triple Crown Analysis for Pitchers

September , 2009 – Asher B. Chancey As casual baseball fans know, a pitcher wins the “Triple Crown” when he leads his league in wins, ERA, and strikeouts in the same season. The more-than-casual baseball fan realizes that only one out of those three categories truly represents the talents of a pitcher, as opposed to the combined talents of a... [Read more]...

Sabermetrics 101: Runs Created

September 19, 2009 – Peter Schiller Runs Created or RC is a tool created by Bill James in an attempt to calculate how many runs an individual player creates for his team. If you follow James, then you probably know of RC already, but if you don’t and you are tired of the same old stats then you may want to pay close attention to this post.... [Read more]...

The Lost Art of the HOLD

September 17, 2009 – Peter Schiller It’s time to give the set-up men their own statistic again. Let’s reinstate the Major League Hold. After all, ESPN still lists it in their box scores. Seriously though, something needs to be done, statistically speaking, to differentiate a set-up man from a specialist (in just to face one batter). In some cases,... [Read more]...

How DIPS Can Predict A Team’s Turnaround

September 15, 2009 – Asher B. Chancey Prior to last season, I predicted good things for the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays, and the reason for these predictions was simple – improved defense. The Brewers and Rays both had excellent pitchers being undermined by their defenses in 2007, and had both made moves to drastically improve their... [Read more]...

Sabermetrics 101: VORP

September 11, 2009 – Peter Schiller For those of you who are sabermetrically challenged, here is an introductory look into this basic stat. Here is the textbook description of VORP thanks to Baseball Prospectus.com. VORP stands for Value Over Replacement Player, which is broken down as the number of runs contributed beyond what a replacement-level... [Read more]...