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How Efficient and Effective Were the Colorado Rockies in 2009?
A common theme for Purple Row Academy this entire year has been looking at ways to quantify a player's value to a team, especially through the Wins Above Replacement (WAR) stat used notably by FanGrap...
Fangraphs Reinforces Just How Bad It's Been
R.J. Anderson at Fangraphs recently concluded his "How Are The Stars Being Acquired" series, looking at the top players in baseball by position and noting how they were acquired by their current team....
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Right Field)
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C (with methodology) I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF For the next step in my ongoing quest to quantify the greatest Rockies ever by position, I'm ...
Who Has Been Clutch?
The are seemingly infinite ways to measure "clutchness" - performance w/RISP, late and close situations, September, RISP and 2 outs, etc. Beyond the Boxscore suggested one other method, which I ...
Billy Wagner's Most Valuable Pitches
To commemorate Billy Wagner's return this week, I compiled a list of his top 10 most valuable pitches as a Met per WPA. It should bring back some pleasant, and not so pleasant, memories during t...
You Always Fear What You Don't Understand
Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest is a blog dedicated to coverage of the Mets and Yankees. The tone of the site is similar to sports talk radio. There is an open and prominent aversion to statis...
#1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 NL Starters At The Halfway Point
When describing starting pitchers, we often say things like "he's an ace" or "he's a #4 pitcher". A pet peeve of mine is the wrongful labeling of a pitcher to a certain rotation spot, based on s...
UZR Hates The Mets Outfield
The Mets have the 2nd worst Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR) in baseball, at -20.1 runs. Only the embarrassing Nationals measure out worse. This number jumps off the page because the Omar Minaya...
Celebrating Adequacy: The 11 Average-est Position Players in Baseball at the Moment
You know the drill with baseball bloggers: we like to talk about players who are either really, really good, or (and perhaps preferably -- overall, we're pretty misanthropic) really, really bad. ...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Position Players)
In this new series of Purple Row Academy, I will step on the toes of both RMN and TOGB somewhat--in examining the concept of Wins Above Replacement (WAR)--also called Win Value--in deta...
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