Category: Braves

It’s an off day, so today’s chart is based on more of a big-picture view.  It’s Bobby Cox’s win percentage by year during his current tenure as the Braves’ manager.  I left off 1990 because he took over mid-season.  The win totals (on the right) for 1994-95 would be off a little because of the […]

Today we’ll take a look at Javier Vazquez year-by-year in several key categories.  He’ll try to keep up his hot start tonight against the Cards. For all the talk about his decline and his brilliant New York flameout, Javy Vazquez has kept up a strong strikeout rate, walk rate, and kept the ball in the […]

We’re three weeks into the season, so let’s look at how the hitters have fared on a weekly basis.  This chart shows each hitter’s season OPS at the end of each week.  Stats are through Sunday 4/26. At least Casey Kotchman is trending in the right direction, I suppose.

Chipper Jones turns 37 today, so I thought it would be interesting to look at other players similar to him, with an eye toward his Hall of Fame chances. Below are the Similarity Scores (a Bill James creation) of the next 10 most similar batters to Chipper through his current age.  This doesn’t adjust for […]

A chart for your Thursday. Let’s see who’s producing the most wins in terms of their corresponding batting and fielding dollar values.  Take these with a grain of salt, though (if you read the comments at that link, which explains Dave Cameron’s system).  Stats are still through Sunday’s games. I know Anderson’s last, but it’s pretty […]

Another day, another Braves chart. We’ll look at a possibly unfamiliar stat today: Ultimate Zone Rating.  One of many “all-encompassing” fielding metrics, UZR is “The number of runs above or below average a fielder is in both range runs, outfield arm runs, double play runs and error runs combined,” according to FanGraphs.  If you want […]

Today begins the second week of the Braves Chart of the Day series, in which I attempt to befuddle readers with my Excel wizardry bring baseball’s numbers to life. How much can things change in one week?  This is a comparison of the Braves’ hitters season OPS at the end of Week 1 vs. the […]

Baseball, with its seemingly endless stream of numbers and lengthy season, presents ample opportunities to share many types of data.  In an effort to keep presenting that data in new and interesting ways, I will strive to post one new Braves chart per weekday (Tue-Fri) as a way to spur your thoughts and possibly facilitate […]