Friday, May 24, 2013
Paul Daugherty: Old-v-New schools of thought
(cincinnati.com)
One, two big schools
All the worlds are
Colliding all around you
Read More...I was going to write something today for SI.com re Votto. Specifically, that Votto represented one of the clearest cases of Old-v-New schools of thought, re hitting production. The idea was discussed when The Technician was sitting on 4 HR/20 BI. Now, he’s up to 7 and 22. Both #s are subpar for him and, in fact, for a No. 3 hitter. The obvious question being, can a guy who ranks 11th among NL 1Bs in BI be seen as having a ...
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1. AndrewJ posted on March 10, 2013 at 04:55 PM # hit 0 | hit 0In 1985 Bill James was interviewed for SABR's Baseball Research Journal, where he said he regretted coining the term "sabermetrics" precisely because it conflated SABR with stat-crunching in the general public's mind. There's much, much more to SABR than sabermetrics.
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