Category: Baseball
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According to this LA Times article: The Dodgers received confirmation from the Elias Sports Bureau that the lineup they fielded in a 13-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Friday made history. That lineup was the first to feature an infield consisting of four sons of four former major leaguers: first baseman Scott Van Slyke, second baseman Jerry Hairston…
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Major League Baseball (MLB) recently released the selections for the 2012 All-star game. Many deserving players made the team, but some of the selections don’t really make any sense to me. Therefore, I have decided to announce the StatsInTheWild (SITW) All-Star team for 2012 to try to give credit where credit is due to some…
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Slate has an awesome sports podcast called “Hang Up and Listen” featuring Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca. Every week they do a trivia question, and this weeks question was: What current major league player’s first and last name are state capitals. (The answer is one of my top all-star snubs, if you need…
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I recently released the SITW 2012 All-Star Team, which hopefully, in some small way, makes players like Edwin Encarnacion and James MCDonald feel a little bit better. THe SITW All-Star Team is better than no All-Star Team, right? Anyway, here’s a list of the players who were snubbed this year in the All-Star selection…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of July 2, 2012 at 10:37am. SOS=strength of schedule The last rankings came out on June 25, and since then the Dodgers have gone 1-6. Going back two weeks, to June 19, they are 2-11. As a result of this they fall 8 spots this week, landing them at number 18…
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Here is what I said about the LA Dodgers on May 28, 2012: Some comments: ESPN ranking the Dodgers number 1 is an absolute joke. Yeah, they have the best record in baseball, but they also have the weakest schedule in baseball. 38 of their 47 games so far, almost 81%, have been against teams…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of June 25, 2012 at 4:37pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Texas 1 ↑1 45-28 1 2 13 NYY 2 ↓1 43-28 2 1 4 Tampa Bay 3 – 40-32 7 4 3 Toronto 4 ↑1 37-35 17 8 1 Boston 5 ↑1 38-34 10 7…
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Just a reminder that all five of the teams in the American League East have positive run differentials. That’s one of many reasons why it’s insane that ESPN has Toronto and Boston ranked 15 and 17 in their power rankings. I like my rankings or these rankings much better because…
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So I had lunch today with two stats post-docs, and the R package ggplot2 came up. So I started dabbling and here is my first graph. It’s the same as my one-hitter graph, but instead it was made with ggplot2. I think it looks a bit more professional. Cheers.
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Someone recently mentioned to me that strikeouts in the major leagues were at an all time high. So I did what anyone would naturally do: Write some R code to scrape baseball-reference.com, collect team data for every team over the past 112 years, and plot it. The results are below: Things to notice: The strikeout…
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