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Grabbing the Bullpen by the Horns: What Is the Optimal Strategy for Using Relievers?

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, sabermetrics, Statistical Analysis, tagged on January 28, 2012 | 22 Comments »

(The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstripe Alley; unless otherwise noted, WAR refers to fangraphs’ calculation of the metric) Is it better to maximize the number of times a reliever can be used or the length of his appearances? Yesterday at frangraphs.com, Dave Cameron tried to answer that question by comparing bullpen performance over the last 30 […]

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Change for the Better: Is Pineda’s Limited Arsenal a Cause for Concern?

Posted in Baseball, Hot Stove, MLB, sabermetrics, Yankees, tagged on January 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Based on a recent comment from Brian Cashman, it seems as if the Yankees’ general manager does not believe he has acquired a finished product in Michael Pineda. That revelation has caused some uneasiness among Yankees’ fans, but that sentiment shouldn’t be unsettling. How many 22-year old pitchers come to the major leagues as a […]

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WAR Is Not the New RBI (but It Has Its Own Flaws)

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Red Sox, sabermetrics, Yankees on September 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Is WAR the new RBI? That was the question asked in a thought provoking post at IIATMS, which is sure to draw a new battle line in the statistical debate over the value of composite metrics. At the heart of author’s argument is the suggestion that WAR, like RBIs, is context-based because so many elements […]

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