Interesting read from Kevin Lai at The Hardball Times.
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Category Archives: Other Baseball
Roger Angell on Duke Snider
If you read this site regularly you know I’m generally not one for nostalgia (though I have occasional lapses), but I have a soft spot for the Dodgers of the 40s and 50s. Those were the teams that hooked my grandfather as a baseball fan, and so, indirectly, the reason I grew up watching baseball. Also, that’s a crazy stat — 16 of 20 World Series teams and nine of ten champions. Via Alex Belth.
An open letter to Jeremy Bonderman
SNY promos editor and all-around beard hero Brett is, for reasons unclear, extremely eager to get in touch with Jeremy Bonderman.
Most important interview in baseball history
At Big League Stew, David Brown asks Rollie Fingers about mustache maintenance.
Bill James rules
Derrick Goold writes an outstanding profile of Bill James, emphasizing a point I often like to bring up: James writes beautifully, something that too often gets ignored by people insisting he has somehow tarnished the game with his insistence on relying on facts. The quote above touches on something we apparently have in common that I’ve tried to get at before, only James, in typical fashion, says it more clearly than I could. Via Repoz.
Here is your annual dose of Matt Stairs love
Man I hope he makes the Nats. <3 Matt Stairs. Via Deadspin.
File under: Things I’ll try to use this week
Whenever I’ve asked, most baseball players (though not all, of course) have insisted they don’t pay attention to their stats. This is a pretty solid fact to present to whichever one does next, no?
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Bryce Harper is going to make his Spring Training debut here on Monday, which means I’m totally going to see Bryce Harper make his Spring Training debut. I understand the Nats veterans have convinced him to ditch the eye-black, which I suppose is good in this case because I’ll be significantly less tempted to heckle him from the press box.
People still don’t get Moneyball
Over at Rob Neyer’s old haunt, Bill from the Platoon Advantage explains, for like the billionth time, that Moneyball was not just about stocking up on players with high on-base percentages. It was about identifying quantifiable market inefficiencies and exploiting them, which is, when you do it successfully, just good business.
Jason Kendall charges up San Juan Hill
Great writeup from Will McDonald at Royals Review about a bizarre meltdown during a recent Kansas City radio interview.
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