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Comment on The International Currency of Baseball by Shower Enclosures

Shower Enclosures — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:30:09 +0000

Great comment, love the design of the site too.

Comment on Intro to Sabermetrics 101: Glossary Sect. 2 by jrhana

jrhana — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:54:44 +0000

Michael

reading your excellent work on the Marlins has convinced me to start seriously studying sabermetric concepts.

Anyway a quick question on the concept of Defense Independent Pitching.

The pitcher is actually himself an often not insignificant part of the defense. Somehow it seems the pitcher should get some credit or blame for his own part in the outcome. I was wondering if anyone had come up with a way to factor this in.

Thanks

John

Comment on BaseRuns: The Ultimate in Run Estimation (so far) by Mixer Taps

Mixer Taps — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:54:57 +0000

Certainly got us thinking here are work, expect a few replies later

Comment on Player Profile: Matt Holliday by Michael Jong

Michael Jong — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:41:43 +0000

Nick,

Thanks for dropping by, and thanks for the kind words.

I think that Holliday is just the type of guy who plays better at home, for whatever reason. It could be the fact that he doesn’t have to travel, it could be the familiarity of the home crowd, could be a bunch of factors I wouldn’t get into. What I do think is that we have a better chance with park adjustments than with using road splits to determine a player’s neutral production.

When doing research for that article, I found that, this season, Holliday hit better at Oakland than he did on the road. Oakland is an awful place to hit, but Holliday did just fine. He may just be that type of player.

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Comment on Player Profile: Matt Holliday by nickkappel

nickkappel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:16:28 +0000

Good piece Michael, your blog is one of my favorites here on FanHuddle.

I did a piece similar to this on Holliday’s home/road splits on Bleacher Report back in May. I totaled up his numbers from all of his career away games and projected them out over a season. Essentially, these would be Holliday’s season averages playing in every park other than Coors Field. Keep in mind these totals are pre-2009:

91 R
21 HR
85 RBI
19 SB
.279 BA

Certainly not the numbers he posted for a few years in Colorado, but he’s no slouch either. If he re-signs with STL, I think he’ll have another big year hitting behind Phat Albert.

Keep up the great work!

Comment on The Value of Walks and Baseball’s “Clock” by Michael Jong

Michael Jong — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:22:04 +0000

bs.uf15bosox9bears23,

Thanks for the mention. I’ll try to keep up the good content for the good folks over at Over the Monster as well.

Comment on The Value of Walks and Baseball’s “Clock” by bs.uf15bosox9bears23

bs.uf15bosox9bears23 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:06:33 +0000

I’m going to to this (and the previous lesson) in the daily links post on Over The Monster for 10/29 – I want to get some of our readers more familiar with sabermetrics. I’ll try to keep the readers flowing over here for your lessons.

Comment on The Value of Walks and Baseball’s “Clock” by Michael Jong

Michael Jong — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:28:03 +0000

Old Backstop,

First off, welcome! Secondly, thank you very much, and I hope you can stop by in the future for more. I look forward to discussing many things with many folks as we go on with the “class” here.

Comment on The Value of Walks and Baseball’s “Clock” by Old Backstop

Old Backstop — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:08:46 +0000

Excellent, Excellent, Excellent article.