Baseball Prospectus 2008 comes out on Monday. Probably the best $13.17 you'll spend this year. Unless Xavier (80:1 at BetUS) wins it all.
Very old, but this Russell Westbrook dunk against Cal was absolutely filthy.
Baseball Musings predicts how many R/G each team will score in '08. A commenter alertly notes, "Looks like another long year for Matt Cain."
STF interviews SI's Luke Winn.
Ozzie Guillen, being awesome:
‘’Then if you’re a nice guy, they are going to treat you the same way. [Expletive] it, be an ####### then. I would rather be an ####### winning than be a nice guy [expletive] losing. Give me an ####### who can win, don’t give me a nice guy who can [expletive] lose.’"
ESPN jumped the gun on the UAB-Memphis game. How does that happen? Is it really so difficult to wait two minutes?
Silver adjusts PECOTA for strength of schedule. Seattle's prediction descends even lower. 85 wins. Right.
With Leather was on the foxnews.com front page. Also from WL:
"Seriously, if I said that Raul Ibanez could run down a routine fly ball, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'd be lying."Derek Jeter: a below average fielder!? Man, what are they smoking down at Penn?
2 comments:
On Baseball Musings predicted runs per game, one commenter noted that the AL's predictions are noticeably (.38 runs) higher.
How much of this do you think can be attributed solely to Santana leaving the league? Is that the sort of thing that can even be calculated?
You know, my initial reaction to your question was "Pretty much none, it's because of the DH", but I think Santana does have a noticeable effect.
From the FanGraphs numbers, he has averaged 42 BRAA the last three years, so he's saved his team about 42 runs more than the average pitcher. There were 2,268 AL games last year; per AL game, Santana averaged 0.0185 runs below average. That's obviously only half of it, since he's now allowing 42 runs fewer than average in the NL. So by this calculation his effect is 0.037 R/G, about 10% of the total discrepancy.
I think.
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