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This is not a detailed study of aging … there are plenty of those out there. One of Bill James’ most famous principles is that players age much faster than people in baseball generally understand. Many other people have studied the question, and come...
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Bill James and Fans only project him to start 134 and 130 respectively, and Roto Champ is even more pessimistic, projecting him at a mere 470 PAs. There is always a chance that Alex will exceed these projected lines (you can’t predict baseball Suzyn!),...
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Baseball men, living from day to day in the clutch of carefully metered chance occurrences, have developed an entire bestiary of imagined causes to tie together and thus make sense of patterns that are in truth entirely accidental
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This is a real mess. Bad Left Hook "The internet has undermined professionalism in journalism, which is a good thing." I mean we only knew about the health concerns heading into the fight, so what?” I’m not saying Hernandez is fit for fighting, how...
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Great breakout from Jacoby Ellsbury, but now he's expensive. What do we expect for 2012? What do we pay for? Let's attack this one using wisdom of crowds. I collected seven different Ellsbury projections, including entries from Bill James (you've...
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All that said, Harrison has a decent shot at making the big league club, and he isn’t going to hurt you coming off the bench. He’s a good runner and a good contact bat, so he could be useful in the major leagues. Harrison has a career wOBA of .287 and...
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When I was in Texas, we had a sabermetrician, if you will, on staff—Craig Wright—who was a wonderfully talented Bill James disciple, actually ... But at the time, I wasn’t ready for it, nor was I think the world of baseball to actually make the numbers applicable to the day-to-day managing of the game.
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The longtime Red Sox right fielder was a member of both the 1975 and 1986 Red Sox World Series teams and played with the Red Sox from 1972 and 1990. Dewey was not given much Hall of Fame consideration when he became eligible, remaining on the ballot...
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For those who don’t know Sickels, he studied with Bill James, and his prospecting is generally, in my opinion, about as good as it gets. This is, after all, what he does. On Cory Vaughn: “Although I think he deserves a partial injury mulligan, there...
About Bill James
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George William “Bill” James (born October 5, 1949, in Holton, Kansas) is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American... Full Article
