Comments on: Baseball Talk From China

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:09:28 +0000

Well that was a nice post. I liked it.
Very nice posting. Thanks.

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By: Stevo

Stevo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:00:52 +0000

You could take into account the score AFTER the hit as well as before. Therefore, a grand slam during a 5-run game would be counted as “clutch” since the score after the hit was within 1 run.

By: Donald Kaufman

Donald Kaufman — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:17:51 +0000

There is a statistic that measures the value of plate appearances–Win Probability Added (WPA). It measures difference, positive or negative, in a team’s win expectancy before and after each at-bat, aggregated for all at-bats. Fangraphs compiles WPA. Pujols is 4th in MLB.

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By: Donut Police

Donut Police — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:55:40 +0000

Joe, so you like the predictable? That means you’re boring. BORING! Please head home via Bangkok to your wife.

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:43:37 +0000

Guess I got it wrong, I’m sure I’ve seen it on some music channel listed as Sulio, oh well. Anyway the more important thing is that you watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TApA1fyoSdk

I have no idea what that has to do with chocolate but it has to be one of the best adverts of the last 10 years, easy.

By: Buchholz Surfer

Buchholz Surfer — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:52:34 +0000

Last night’s Texas-Boston game shows that even some “meaningless” at-bats in blowout games turn out to be not so meaningless after all. Lots of Pribbies put up in that game, all of which turned out to be important.

I think the WPA stat would probably shed a lot of light on whose hits actually “mean” a lot and whose are “empty,” if people are talking about that sort of thing.

By: GRAPHITE

GRAPHITE — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:18:06 +0000

I’m hoping it’ll be like Oprah â€” we’ll look under our chairs and there’ll be a Mercedes there.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:50:59 +0000

please don’t let them make you have a typical SI.com blog like all their other bloggers. those things are so ugly i don’t even read them anymore.

i hope they just sponsor this one.

By: Update

Update — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:38:55 +0000

In case Joe reads this and can’t find out anywhere else … Banny gives up four hits (but three of them homers) and four runs in seven innings Tuesday night in a 9-0 loss at Chicago.