Two interesting sabermetric tidbits that I found share-worthy came up over the last few days:
The fantastic Marc Carig of the Star-Ledger is now writing for Baseball Prospectus, and his first column made an excellent point about defensive metrics:
Which brings me to the idea of defensive metrics. [...]
One statistic that gets thrown around a lot as a measure of luck is Batting Average on Balls In Play, or BABIP. BABIP measures how often balls that are batted into the field of play go for hits. Because about 30% of balls in play tend to go for hits, a player [...]
Much was made about Austin Jackson‘s rather obscenely high Major League-leading .396 Batting Average on Balls in Play throughout the 2010 season, and rightly so, as he posted a .395-plus BABIP in three of the season’s six months (including a jaw-dropping .530 in April, his debut month, and .432 mark in July). This [...]
Throughout the entire American League Championship Series, one aspect that has struck me more than anything else about this Texas Rangers team — and given the way they’ve mostly manhandled the Yankees, there’s certainly been plenty of competition in the “things I wasn’t aware the Rangers were capable of doing” [...]
Following up on our initial Fun With Small Sample Sizes post, here’s a look at the individual wOBAs for the Yankees’ offense after six games:
Scary to think of the damage this team will inflict once the top of the order starts kicking it into gear. Nick [...]
Last year, I couldn’t help but be a little bit captivated by the whole Rays phenomenon. I was a believer from even before the season started, though I admit to thinking they’d hit some kind of prolonged dry spell some time during the season that they never actually hit. They were an easy team to [...]
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