Felix and the Wall Street Journal

by Peen on Mar 12, 2006 7:59 AM PST Comment 2 comments

Felix had an article in the WSJ on Friday. This is interesting because the journal typically only has an article or maybe two a week on sports. I would link it but the journal charges for online articles.

The just of the article was comparing young hitters to young pitchers and how to predict success from each. Nothing ground breaking just you standard BP stuff. They compare Felix to 4 pitchers V. Blue,
B. Saberhagen, Fernado, and of course Doc. Gooden. Worth a glance though as it is always nice to see the term "peripheral stats" used in a major publication.

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Huh

One thing that puzzled me was in their little table of stats, comparing young pitchers and such, the stat they were using was wins (winning%) I believe. But in the article they quoted baseball prospectus. I don't understand how anyone with knowledge of baseball prospectus could use wins as a meaningful metric in such a major article.
But still, I was happy to see Felix get some press, he'll be a star after this season.

Abolish Work

by JNR on Mar 12, 2006 10:56 AM PST reply actions 0 recs