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Start Wearing Purple
Despite what may have appeared to be a diatribe against any team not in the AL East, I am in fact a Colorado Rockies fan. Though baseball season most definitely began last night, today begins the season for the Rockies. According to my most conservative, pessimistic, unbiased projections, the Rockies will finish the year with [...]
Posted in Baseball Tagged Colorado Rockies, Eric Young Jr., Gogol Bordello, Jorge de la Rosa, Seth Smith, Troy Tulowitzki, Ubaldo Jimenez Leave a comment
Shut Up, You NL/AL Central Loving Hillbillies
What is this nonsense I keep hearing from the mouths of fans of teams that play in the Flyover-State Divisions? Shit like, “tomorrow’s the real opening day” and “the real baseball season doesn’t start until tomorrow”. Sounds like an extension of Palin’s “real” America rhetoric to me. Listen up, hillbillies. Baseball season starts tonight, and [...]
Posted in Baseball Tagged Adrian Beltre, Boston Red Sox, Mike Cameron, New York Yankees, Nick Johnson, opening day, Sarah Palin Leave a comment
It’s the OBP, Stupid!
I hope the signing of Miguel Olivo truly does mean that the Rockies intend to give Chris Iannetta the full workload of a starting catcher. It’d be a shame if Jim Tracy and the Rockies organization was tempted to play Olivo more than necessary, considering he has a lifetime OBP of .278, compared to Iannetta’s [...]
Rockies To Sign Miguel Olivo – Let the Good Iannetta Times Roll
The Colorado Rockies are apparently close to a deal with catcher, Miguel Olivo. Rather than examining the strengths and weaknesses of the potential signing, I’m going to take the following from this news: the Rockies are done with Yorvit Torrealba! For the past three seasons, Chris Iannetta has had to share time behind the plate [...]
Posted in Baseball Tagged Chris Iannetta, Colorado Rockies, Miguel Olivo, Yorvit Torrealba Leave a comment
Closers, Saves, and Alternate Realities
Up 5-4 against the Tigers in Game 163 last night, I thought Twins manager, Ron Gardenhire, should have used Joe Nathan to begin the top of the 8th inning. The Twins ended up winning the game anyway, so this may all be moot. But by using Nathan in the eighth from the outset, the Twins [...]
Calculating FIP and WAR from Retrosheet Data, Part 1
Ok, I finally have the beginnings (Finally have the beginnings? That doesn’t sound right.) of FIP and WAR calculations for starting pitchers. After parsing pitching data out of retrosheet files from the 2007 season, I calculated FIP and WAR for SP on a per-game level. By taking a weighted average of these game-level FIP and [...]
Off to Minny
Going to Minnesota for a short weekend trip. Hopefully I’ll run into a few of those 10,000 lakes, but I doubt I’ll see much more than that ugly, green carpet covered by a big, white balloon. Made a lot of progress on my FIP and WAR calculations last night … almost ready to show some [...]
Park Factors
Oh, it feels good to be back. Yesterday, I spent a full day at the office programming, and then programmed for a few more hours once I got home. After feeling “stuck” at a job I stopped liking, it’s been a while since I’ve felt that passion for something I was working on. It feels [...]
Posted in Baseball Tagged A.J. Burnett, Amazon SQS, C.C. Sabathia, database, FIP, park factor, retrosheet, sabermetrics, WAR Leave a comment
Weird Things about ERA
One of my planned projects during my new found unemployment involves sabermetrics. As a first step, I’m writing scripts to parse Retrosheet files and calculate advanced pitching metrics like FIP and WAR. Along with these advanced metrics, I’m also calculating more traditional stats like ERA. When some of the resulting ERAs in my database did [...]
Come On Reyes, Cruise For Me