A week ago, the Braves’ lineup wasn’t fantastic, but they were at least hitting for power and posting a decent OPS. That’s no longer the case, so let’s take a look at the hitters and see what we have two weeks into the season. The following list is sorted by WPA. Hitting PA AVG OBP […]
Month: April 2007
Braves finish a successful second week
The Braves finished this past week at 3-2 after the rain washed out the middle game of the Florida series. They ended up trading blowouts with the Marlins after taking 2 of 3 against the almost totally incompetent Nationals. This Week’s Stats Here are some links to the WPA graphs of each game this past […]
An interesting new draft proposal
I don’t post a whole lot of thoughts on football, since it’s probably #3 on my list of favorite sports behind baseball and basketball, but it’s too hard to pass up a comment on this excellent post by Doug Drinen at the Pro-football-reference blog. Recent studies have shown that, because of the amount of money […]
Are the Braves really this Clutch?
One of the tried-and-true adages of the sabermetric (baseball research) community has always been that clutch hitting simply doesn’t exist. For years, statheads have tried to figure out if any player has a significant clutch impact vs. other players, and pretty much no one managed to prove it. Times have changed, and so have the […]
The week in Braves Win Probability
The first week of the Braves’ season went about as well as any fan could have hoped. They opened with a sweep of the Phillies and came home to take two of three against the Mets. Let’s take a look at it from the viewpoint of Win Probability Added, a fantastic stat that is tracked […]
Month-end Meta: March 2007
It couldn’t be clearer that basketball drives this site. Starting about the second week of March, my visits tumbled, and I started posting less often. I’ve moved on to baseball now, I guess, and luckily, there are a lot of other great sites out there tracking baseball stats. I don’t have to put as much legwork […]
Braves on pace for unprecedented 162-0 season
As Chris said yesterday, it’s fun to get this sort of post title out while it’s still true. So, while we know that the Braves won’t get 162 perfect innings each out of Gonzalez, Soriano, Wickman, and Paronto (or 324! homers by Edgar Renteria), it still feels good to get a win like that under […]
Baseball season starts today
Okay, so it actually started last night, but the Braves’ first game is today, so it feels like the season starts today. I’m pretty swamped here at work, so I won’t have time to follow the game closely, but if you’re needing something to read while you watch the game, check out J.C. Bradbury’s excellent […]
MLB Predictions 2007
As much as I might hate to admit it, I’m wrong a lot of the time. This year will probably be no different when it comes to my baseball predictions, but it won’t stop me from making them anyway. First, I’ll do a divisional breakdown and then pick some award winners. If you want to […]
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