In this edition of WPA analysis/storytelling, I wanted to focus on pinch hitters. I defined a pinch-hit appearance as one […]
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Biggest Single-Game Contributions in 2013, National League
Welcome back! This post is the second in a two-part series; in part one, I looked at single-game contributions in […]
Read moreBiggest Single-Game Contributions in 2013, American League
I love the metric Win Probability Added (WPA). It’s “the story stat”, a way to quantify the contributions made by […]
Read moreGame Recap: O’s 3, Twins 4
I have a new post up at Camden Chat that recaps today’s loss to the Twins. It’s my first game […]
Read moreNew York Yankees @ Baltimore Orioles, September 10 2012
Phil Hughes 200 mm, 1/320, f/4, ISO 400 Wei-Yin Chen 200 mm, 1/500, f/4.5, ISO 800 Wei-Yin Chen 200 mm, […]
Read moreNew Baseball Column is Up!
I’m excited to be writing Texas Swing, a baseball column, for local blog Austinist. It’s a weekly series discussing what’s […]
Read moreBatting Average is Not a Flawed Statistic
It has become common in the baseball community to bash batting average, to say it is a flawed statistic, for […]
Read moreIt’s Over, But … Game 6, Game 7
As it stands now, I’m understanding of the Cardinals’ victory in Game 7. They deserve it. Texas did not, not […]
Read moreGame Five, Game Six
Our plucky heroes sunk the Cardinals’ battleship yet again, winning 4-2 by capitalizing on some hilarious miscommunication between Cards’ skipper […]
Read moreWhat’s Going On?
Well … Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, triggering a flood of writing like this: I remember that I […]
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