If you read a lot of baseball blogs, you’ve probably seen this news a hundred times already today. If not, you need to be warned that a killer baseball app has hit the iPhone. Christmas is here early for this stat and tech geek. FanGraphs has made an iPhone app that currently includes their live […]
Tag: Baseball Stats
Moneyball: The Movie
Perhaps this is old news to you, but perhaps it is not. Maybe, like me, you read some of the headlines about a Moneyball movie back in October, but you figured it was just some kind of joke, and a bad joke at that. If that was the case, you and I would both be […]
Jair Jurrjens and Johan Santana from the same mold?
Jurrjens is going to miss his start against the Cubs today, but I was looking at a few things to get a better feel for his pitches before I saw that news alert, so forgive me for posting anyway. I was looking through Josh Kalk’s PITCHf/x player cards (a great resource if you’re interested in […]
FanGraphs, Plate Discipline, and Jeff Francoeur
Yesterday, David Appelman of FanGraphs took yet another step toward making his site the best online baseball destination. There are a lot of great news sites, a handful of great places for analysis, and more and more quality stat sites (as you might guess, my favorite kind of site) every day. David has now added […]
Weekly Notes: April 18, 2008
Here are a few things I’ve been thinking about this week: I had planned to explore this in depth, but I got way too far off-topic with what I was writing to even think about posting it. Here’s the condensed version: This week in the Wednesday night Bible class I’m teaching (3rd-5th grade), I had […]
Friday Notes: April 4, 2008
This year’s just flying by for me. I’m finding that to be the case each year as I get older, but man, three months can go by quickly. I’ve basically abandoned my month-end meta posts because they stopped being interesting to write a long time ago. I can’t even imagine what they were like to […]
Weekly Notes: January 31, 2008
I’ve gone a bit light on the blogging lately, but I do have a few things to share. Unfortunately, none of them is a college basketball Top 25 list. I’ve been following some blog activity this week about [HU Prof.] Flavil Yeakley’s presentation on youth in the churches of Christ, which he made on January […]
Another reason to rethink the Save
I don’t know if you could call it a “campaign,” but I’ve lobbied for some time now against the use of the save as a useful relief pitching performance measure. Win Probability does a far better job on two levels: 1) it does a far better job showing how much credit a reliever deserves for […]
Friday Notes: August 10, 2007
School starts in Hamilton County this weekend, which means it’s my wife’s last free weekend before things really start getting crazy. I also have a fantasy football draft coming up next weekend and plenty of work to do for that. Here are some notes: I’m always looking for solutions to improve my productivity online and […]
Friday Notes: July 13, 2007
It’s a scary day around here. This is what’s going on: As I’ve mentioned probably too many times, I’m going to the Braves game tonight against the Pirates. It looks like a great pitching matchup, with Hudson facing Ian Snell, who has been outstanding this year for the Bucs. I’ll be closely monitoring Willie Harris […]
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