Voodoo Sabermetrics reminds us that our love for the team includes our love of individual players. We usually have a favorite superstar hitter or pitcher or both. But what about those guys that you just… like? Maybe someone who pinch hits or steals a base now and then. Maybe an aging vet who is like [...]
Archive for April 6th, 2007
Voodoo Sabermetrics – Joel Zumaya
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Smells Like Pujols-Did I Mention I’m Not Good With Numbers?
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Smells Like Pujols is an ongoing feature that will run throughout the MLB season. In it, I compare the stats of this year’s crop of rookie hitting phenoms against those of Albert Pujols’ ROY season in 2001. I am using (technically mis-using) Bill James’ Similarity Scores concept to keep track of the progress of our [...]
