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Morning Prowl: Bourquin Banned, Organizational Trees, Top 10 Prospects, and Goodbye Hessman
[Updated at 9 a.m.] Tigers minor league third baseman Ronnie Bourquin received a 50-game suspension yesterday, after testing positive for an amphetamine. Good timing, with the team having...
Jeff Francoeur Lives In The Now
When projecting the future performance of the Mets, no one gives me fits like Jeff Francoeur. While some people deny it, players follow career trends, things regress, and variability plays a big role ...
Woes and Throes: Chris Iannetta
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Stop Talking About David Wright's BABIP Like It's An Achievment
Ever since Ben Shpigel of the New York Times wrote about David Wright's Batting Average on Balls In Play (BABIP) in an unusual way, mainstream media members have been tripping over themselves to menti...
Tuesday Nats Stats: Bad Luck or Curse?
As this season goes ever-more-ridiculously into impossible badness, let's take a quick look at how much of it we can pin on bad luck. Keep in mind that the majority of the awful comes from not e...
Can David Wright Sustain His Torrid Pace?
After 6 straight multi-hit games followed by Sunday's one-hit disgrace, David Wright has raised his average to a MLB-leading .364. This increase in average, coupled with his relative homerun drought a...
Seth Smith: Man of Many Splits
By this point in the season, I think it's been made pretty apparent that I'm a giant fan of our own LF Seth Smith. I find his playing time to be incredibly lacking, considering his general batting eff...
BABIP: The Pokes, The Quails, and The Inexplicable .410 Batting Average through April
Everybody knows a hit is a hit. Hits advance baserunners, they drive in runs, they kick up grass and dirt and miss gloves. Now, batting average (AVG) is the traditional measure of a baseball player's...
Alcides Escobar and the Case of the Mysterious BABIP
Last season, Alcides Escobar put up an impressive line of .322/.367/.440 at AA Huntsville-- a .373 wOBA compared to an average of .343 in the league. The primary source of his high ranking in many pro...
BABIP, PROJECTION, AND NEW STATISTICS
Researchers have recently begun focusing more on hitters’ Batting Average on Balls in Play (BABIP) and properly being able to predict it. Major League hitters strike out in 20% of at bats ...
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