Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Three True Outcomes per Plate Appearance, 1913-2008

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An update to my Three True Outcomes (TTO) post of January 2008. As mentioned there, batting strikeouts weren't consistently recorded un...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

First Career Home Runs

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Mark Buehrle hit his first career home run today. Later in the same game, he gave up Casey McGehee's first major league home run. I tri...

Fewest IP Per Win & Most IP Without a Win

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In the low minor leagues, teams have begun intensely limiting pitcher workloads. For a lot of young starting pitchers, this can make it toug...

Musing

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A couple days ago I was reading baseball news and came across this AP story about the Twins activating Nick Punto on Yahoo. The part that c...
Sunday, June 7, 2009

2009 Team Unearned Runs

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On Friday I cross-posted something I wrote for Brew Crew Ball regarding earned and unearned runs in an inning with errors and pitching cha...
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Friday, June 5, 2009

Elias Gets Snippy

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I like reading the Elias Says column on ESPN.com. It's got all sorts of odd trivia put together by Elias Sports Bureau, Inc. Today, how...
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Figuring Earned and Unearned Runs in a Crazy Inning

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I'm cross-posting this from Brew Crew Ball because I think it's a useful guide to determining earned and unearned runs in an inning...
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Monday, June 1, 2009

Highest Combined Game Scores, Dual No-Decisions

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I've talked about game scores a couple times in the past. For a refresher on how they're figured, click here to see a list of the lo...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Balking Debuts

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Last Thursday, Kris Medlen was the Atlanta Braves' starting pitcher in a game against the Colorado Rockies. It was his major league debu...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Consecutive Decisions

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With the advent of pitch counts and specialized bullpens, starting pitchers have begun averaging fewer and fewer innings per start. One ofte...
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