baseball Stories - Talking Chop
Prospect Peek: Jurickson Profar
A 16 year old shortstop $1.55mil international signee from Curacao, Jurickson Profar certainly brings a lot of excitement. When a player with that kind of potential makes their pro debut in low-A at age 17 and keeps their head above water it's reason to think the hype could blossom into real big...
What is LOB%?
Hello again er'body! I've just finished my second installment of the Saber Primer video series, this one entitled: "LOB%: The Luck Dragons, Part 1." If you have any questions about LOB% or the stats we use here on the site, head over to the Sabermetrics Library -- or, if you're feeling frisky,...
Baseball and Softball Will Not Be a Part of the 2016 Olympics
According to Jeff Latzke of Boston.com, the 2016 Olympic Games will not include either baseball or softball: In 2005, softball and baseball became the first sports in 69 years to be dropped from the Olympics, beginning with the 2012 London Games. Both lost appeals for reinstatement in 2006 and...
Graph of the Day: Average Age per Year for Batters and Pitchers
For some other work I plan on completing shortly, I needed the average of players for a given season. Though I only need the data for a few seasons, I went ahead and ran the data back until 1900. The data shows nice drops in age for WWI (1914 to 1918) and WW II and subsequent jumps in age after...
Commissioner For a Day
(Inspired by baseballgirl's post from Wednesday, these five ideas all probably require collective bargaining, but I’m assuming absolute power in this hypothetical): 1. Allow the trading of draft picks and institute “hard” draft pick slotting (NBA style), which would instantly...
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