Like most people here, after finding LL & USSM and spending a couple days learning about another view of the team I hadn't seen before, I kept coming back. It's no wonder why. We have here some of the most forward thinking baseball ideas, coupled with some of the more interesting people I've met online. The "Frat House" vs "Classroom" aspect of the M's blagoweb really holds true.

Yesterday, we saw an outsider come in, as happens often, and make some assumptions and use numbers that aren't exactly accurate. This made me realize how much I don't know, and gave me an opportunity to go back into the archives and bone up on all the things I've skimmed over in the past.  This is that list, sorted by category.

If anyone has anything to add to this list, or has a problem with classification, please leave that in comments, and I'll update as requested.

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The Basics -

If you haven't read these, do it now. Hell, read them over and over until you know all the concepts by heart. These are the simple concepts that are common wisdom here. Know these, and the rest gets a lot easier.

• Dave Cameron's "Evaluating Pitcher Talent"

• Dave's "Evaluating Defense"

• Graham MacAree's "Probability vs. Certainty"

• Graham's "The Cost of a Player"

Pitching -

• Graham's "The tRA Post"
• Matthew Carruth's "Identifying Candidates for Regression"
• Matthew's "Evaluating Starts: An Example"
• Jeff Sullivan's "So Much Fun with Numbers"
  
• Matthew's "Best Pitching Units by tRA, 2007"
• Matthew's "Best Pitching Units by tRA, 2008.5"
• Graham's "Adjusted IP and Outs: More Pitching Analysis"
• Matthew's "Seeing the World Pitch by Pitch"
• Graham's "More Pitching Research - Now with Explanation"
• Matthew's "Pitcher Wins are Stupid, Part 20"
• Matthew's "Putaway Counts, Part 1"
• Matthew's "Putaway Counts, Part 2"
• Graham's "Biomechanics and You"

Hitting -

• Jeff's "Fun With Numbers: Plate Discipline" 
• Matthew's "Unlucky Hitters"
• Matthew's "First Pitch Hacking?"
• Matthew's "The BaseRuns Model"
• Matthew's "GPA: A Better OPS"
• Graham's "Three True Outcomes?"
• Jeff's "Fun with Numbers, Hitting Edition"

Defense -

• Matthew's "Defense Matters Part MDCLXVI"
• Jeff's "Hey You Know Whose Defense Sucks? Ours"
• Matthew's "The Mariners OF Defense 2003-7"
• Matthew's "Defensive Primer: Quantifying a Catcher's Arm"
• Matthew's "DER and You"
• Matthew's "Defensive Stat of the Day"

Teams, Wins, Stats, etc. -

• Matthew's "Trying to Track True Team Talent"
• Graham's "Park Effects"
• Graham's "Black Boxes and Stat Daemons"
• Jeff's "Belaboring the Point"
• Jeff's "Home Field Advantage"
• Matthew's "Putting BAPIP to a Test"
• Graham's "The Run Value of Outs"
• Graham's "Recreating VORP"
• Graham's "The Problem with Pythag"
• Matthew's "Pitching Components Year-to-Year"

Evaluating Individual Players -

• Jeff's "Ichiro is Fine"
• Jeff's "I Was Wondering When it Would Come to This" - Yuni
  
• Matthew's "Digging Deeper: Howie Kendrick"
• Jeff's "High Starch Diet" - Potatoes
  
• Jeff's "More Fun With PITCHf/x, Now With ∞% More Brandon Morrow"
• Jeff's "A Little Fun with Erik Bedard and PITCHf/x"
• Jeff's "Adrian Beltre: Star"
• Jeff's "Fun with Felix"
• Matthew's "Where Felix Pitches"
• Matthew's "Brandon Morrow from Pitch F/X"
• Jeff's "45-72" - RRS

Finally, these didn't really fit into a category, but I felt they were important nonetheless:

• Jeff's "Where I Go"
• Jeff's "Open Statistical Question Thread"
• Graham & Matthew's "StatCorner.com"