Quick Content Update:
Two of our favorite features from baseball season will live on this season, though I still have no plans to re-start this site any time soon.
Voodoo Sabermetrics will now run on the far superior baseball site Babes Love Baseball.
Smells Like Pujols will be rejiggered a bit to determine the potential of minor league [...]
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Outsourcing Labor for Baseball Season
Posted in Baseball, Blogrollin', Smells Like Pujols on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Categorical Dominance
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols, tagged Rookie of the Year on October 2, 2007 | 3 Comments »
All season long, I have rated the rookies against the staggering 2001 totals of Albert Pujols. Not today. Today, they stand against only their fellow rookies. Here are final stats for the first-year hitters, including the one-game playoff for Kouzmanoff and Tulowitzki.
NAME
TEAM
G
AB
R
HITS
2B
3B
HR
RBI
SB
BB
SO
AVG
SLG
R. Braun
MIL
113
451
91
146
26
6
34
97
15
29
112
.324
.634
A. Gordon
KC
151
543
60
134
36
4
15
60
14
41
137
.247
.411
J. Hamilton
CIN
90
298
52
87
17
2
19
47
3
33
65
.292
.554
A. Iwamura
TB
123
491
82
140
21
10
7
34
12
58
114
.285
.411
K. Kouzmanoff
SD
145
484
57
133
30
2
18
74
1
32
94
.275
.457
D. Pedroia
BOS
139
520
86
165
39
1
8
50
7
47
42
.317
.442
H. Pence
HOU
108
456
57
147
30
9
17
69
11
26
95
.322
.539
T. Tulowitzki
COL
155
609
104
177
33
5
24
99
7
57
130
.291
.479
C.B. Young
AZ
148
569
85
135
29
3
32
68
27
43
141
.237
.467
D. Young
TB
162
645
65
186
38
0
13
93
10
26
127
.288
.408
R. [...]
Smells Like Pujols: Rookie face-off
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols, tagged Troy Tulowitzki, Kevin Kouzmanoff on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been following SLP all season (and I know you have), then you know Kevin Kouzmanoff and Troy Tulowitzki. In addition to having alliterative names which are delightful reminders of our nation’s open-door immigration policy, these two will be crucial parts of a one-game playoff on TBS tonight, as the Padres come [...]
MLB Season is Ending
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols on September 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
You might have noticed I didn’t post yesterday. Today might be a little light as well. Work and life just getting the better of me right now, hopefully we’ll get back to normal soon.
Just to remind you, though, the MLB season is coming to a close, and several of our rookies (see sidebar) [...]
Albert Pujols=Rookie of the Century
Posted in Baseball, Best Of, Smells Like Pujols on September 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
All season long I have kept an eye on this year’s rookie hitters, wondering which one would match the incredible achievements of Albert Pujols in his inaugural year at the plate. I have used Pujols as the standard, with 1000 points as his dedicated number. With my modification of Similarity Scores, I have [...]
Smells Like Pujols – Back to Jack
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today I will be completing my historical Rookie of the Year comparisons. The MLB website only traces the Jack Robinson award, and ignores any awards that might have been given out prior to that, so that’s what I’m doing. Besides, as we creep backward toward the dead ball era, the stats can only [...]
My Doctor Made Me Cut Out the Salt
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
OK, nobody’s making me cut out the Salt. Saltalamacchia, that is. I’m doing it because it’s the right thing to do, like eating oatmeal (thanks, Mr. Brimley!). Salty had a good rookie campaign, but he simply never saw enough at bats. He still hovers well below 200 plate appearances on the [...]
Smells Like Pujols – Groovy, Man. It’s the Sixties.
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Still using the wayback machine to compare past ROY winners to Sir Albert Pujols, and today we’ve made our way back to the 1960’s. Clearly, the farther back we go, the more hallowed some of these names become, as they’ve had time to become legendary and adorn plaques on the wall at Cooperstown (are [...]
Predicting the Rookie of the Year – American League
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols on September 10, 2007 | 9 Comments »
All season long, I have been comparing the success of MLB’s rookie hitters to the greatest first-year masher of all time – Albert Pujols. I have a pretty good idea who I would pick as offensive rookie of the year. But the fact is, there’s no guarantee that a hitter will be chosen. There are [...]
Smells Like Pujols – Bisected by the Bicentennial
Posted in Baseball, Smells Like Pujols on September 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today I continue my historical quest to determine if there has ever been a rookie hitter as good as Albert Pujols. Check out the Smells Like Pujols archives by clicking on it in the tag cloud in the sidebar, and you can see what we made of the go-go 80’s and the bulked-up 90’s, [...]
