Here’s how win shares sees the all-star team:
AL NL
Posada C Lo Duca C
Thome 1B Helton 1B
Soriano 2B [...]
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June 30, 2002
Evenly Matched?
Here’s how the starting lineups matchup in win shares (short form, 1st half of the season):
AL Player Win Shares NL Player Win Shares
Posasa [...]
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June 30, 2002
Thome vs. Giambi:
Just in case you are wondering, Thome has 17.9 win shares, Giambi 15.6.
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June 30, 2002
Hunter In:
Torii Hunter got elected. So we got one Twin, two Expos, and no Brewers. Way to go!
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June 30, 2002
Who’s in Center?
The BBTN crew is wondering who will be the CF for the NL. Isn’t it obvious it should be Vlad? He’s the youngest and fastest.
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June 30, 2002
Rollins at Short?
This was the biggest surprise to me. I thought there would be a number of shortstops with better numbers. But when I really look at it, Jose Hernandez of the Brewers is the only one I might pick over him. Too bad the Milwaukee fans didn’t come out in stronger numbers for [...]
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June 30, 2002
Vidro’s In:
Well, it looks like the push for the Expos brought Jose Vidro into the starting lineup. Way to go, computer voters!
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June 30, 2002
How are the Braves Winning?
I was just looking at the Braves boxscore from today and noticed Vinny Castilla batting 6th. His numbers: .247 BA, .275 OBA, .397 slugging. You want him for defense, fine, but don’t bat him 6th. Plus, you have Javy Lopez who isn’t much better at .239, .286, .368. Once again, they [...]
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June 28, 2002
Still Looks Like a Fluke:
He’ll probably go 5 for 5 with 2 HR tonight, but Bret Boone continues to show that last year was a fluke. He’s probably having the worst year of his career, yet is still driving in a lot of runs due to the team around him. It was speculated last year that Boone [...]
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June 28, 2002
Mo Vs. Moose:
Mo Vaughn just hit his 5th career HR off Mussina. He’s 23 for 70 off Mussina through his first two AB tonight. Half of Mussina’s runs allowed now (28 of 56) have come on HR.
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June 28, 2002
Colon Trade, Part II:
As a rule, I dislike talking about intangibles, but something to think about here. The players on the Expos now know that someone wants them to win. I think that would be a big deal to players. It also might be a boost to the fans. For the first time in [...]
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June 28, 2002
Posada, Whoa-Ho:
Jorge Posada just hit a three-run HR to give the Yankees a 6-1 lead. Nine of his 12 HR have come with men on base this year.
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June 28, 2002
Paul Konerko had quite a
Paul Konerko had quite a line today:
4 4 4 4
Has anyone noticed he’s turned into Frank Thomas without the walks? And big hurt still hasn’t gotten his season together.
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June 28, 2002
Colon Trade:
I love this trade. The Expos may never have another chance at winning, and they are going for it. They pick up a good pitcher having his best season. Colon has 14.6 win shares this year; the most an Expo starts has is Ohka with 7.6. The four pitchers who have [...]
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June 26, 2002
Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!
Bonds and Kent had a shoving match, but have put the situation behind them. Sure. This reminds me of Reggie Jackson and Thurman Munson. They hated each other. And with good reason, since both seemed to be loathsome individuals. Munson got better press, however, and was well liked by the [...]
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June 26, 2002
Baseball WorldCom?
This otherwise unreadable article in the Boston Globe Magazine did give me one thing to think about:
In April, Forbes magazine published a series in which it claimed that Major League Baseball had made $75 million last year. Of course, the commissioner of baseball responded to this particular outburst of optimism – with which he had [...]
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June 25, 2002
Eckstein vs. Jeter
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Brian Kenny on the SportsCenter re-airs this morning mentioned how close offensively Jeter and Eckstein are this year. They are pretty even in runs scored and RBI, but Derek does have better BA, OBA and slugging averages. Jeter is clearly better, but how much?
Luckily, we have [...]
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June 25, 2002
New Baseball Blogs:
A couple of my readers have started their own blogs on baseball. John J Perricone has started Only Baseball Matters. His writings are about the SF Giants, although he was originally a Yankees fan. Chris Hartjes is writing At the Ballpark. It’s new, but he seems to like simulation games a [...]
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June 25, 2002
Coming Back:
I’ve been away on business. I’ll be back writing tonight. I heard Brian Kenny compare David Eckstein favorably to Derek Jeter this morning. I love Eckstein, but I don’t think he’s Jeter. I’ll try to explain why tonight.
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June 22, 2002
In Season Deaths:
This is the first since Munson’s plane crashed in 1979. Happend two years in a row, with Bostock being killed by a gunman at the end of 1978. Most deaths seem to happen in the off-season to active players.
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June 22, 2002
It’s Over:
Raines hit a sac fly. Marlins win. Castillo left on deck without his fifth chance for a hit. It was a good run.
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June 22, 2002
More Castillo:
Fox ended up on third after a wild pitch. Any hit by Raines will end the game and kill the streak. Even a sac fly will do it. Strike out, Timmy! (Just kidding of course. The win is more important than the streak.)
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June 22, 2002
Castillo Streak in Danger:
I come down to look at the boxscore and Castillo is 0-4. It’s the bottom of the ninth and the 4th hitter is leading off. The Marlins are down 4-1, which means they have to get 4 men on base and not score 4 runs to give Castillo a fifth chance to hit. [...]
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June 22, 2002
Ted Lilly’s Gem:
Bill James came up with the concept of the game score a long time ago to put a point value on a start, so you could compare how good one start is to another. You get points for IP, pitching deep into the game and strikeouts. You lose points for hits, walks and [...]
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June 22, 2002
Remembering Kile:
Peter Gammons writes about how Kile cared about his teammates first.
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June 22, 2002
Kile Dead:
Darryl Kile was found dead in his hotel room this afternoon. You can read about it at espn.com, including commentary from Dave Campbell. No word yet on how it happened, but from what La Russa said in an interview with Joe Buck, it looks like he died in his sleep. Today’s game [...]
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June 22, 2002
Orioles Fans:
If you are an Orioles fan, you may want to check out Birds in the Belfry. Lots of research and articles about the Orioles, and they were nice enough to recommend this site to their readers.
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June 22, 2002
Updated Probabilities:
Latest numbers on Castillo is that he has crossed the 1 in 100 barrier. I now estimate he has a 1 in 86 chance of breaking the hit streak record (about a 1.2% chance) based on this year’s batting stats. Based on his career, he’s still over 1 in 1000, at 1 in [...]
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June 21, 2002
Castillo
just got a hit. Thirty-five and counting. And the ball didn’t get out of the infield.
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June 21, 2002
Updated Probabilities:
The chance of Luis Castillo breaking DiMaggio’s record is 1 in 111 based on this season, one in 1430 based on his career. Let me note that the probability of Castillo having 92 hits in 297 plate appearances this year is about .01 (based on his career numbers), which some would call statistically significant [...]
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