Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Yanofsky: Everything you ever wanted to know about baseball ticket prices
(qz.com)
posted on April 02, 2013 at 11:37 PM by Greg Franklin to baseball geeks, business, tickets
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.... but were too poor to ask. (Hint: try to be a Rockies fan who loves going to midweek games against the Mariners in May or September.)
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1 2 >Not sure if that's a question or a statement. For those who don't know, his stuff was fantastic. He analyzed pitchers in videos frame by frame, pointing out small differences between two pitchers, or between a pre-injury and post-injury version of the same pitcher. It was top-notch video scouting.
His review of the draft that year was the best piece I've ever seen on the amateur draft.
Concur, though I'm pretty sure #8 was a riff on the DiPerna line.
Why this pseudonym in particular, or why any pseudonym? (If it's the former--wasn't Gomez a minor league sidearmer?)
As above, his analysis was excellent. And he wrote/explained himself well. Finally, as much as we can tell with online personas, he seemed a really nice gent.
Well done, Carlos! Best of luck to you.
This one in particular, especially considering he doesn't use a pseudonym at the Hardball Times. And yes, he was.
And yeah, I'm pretty sure he was a side-armer. IIRC he said he didn't throw with much heat so he had to come up with creative ways to get batters out.
His stats (I think).
Great news--way to go!
His posting here predated that stuff, and for a while he didn't disclose his real name.
Congrats!
In any case, his hiring was a major loss for the online baseball talking nerd community, and I really miss his draft and prospect analyses in particular. I'm happy to see him succeed in baseball - as much as one can tell from just online conversation, Carlos is someone who deserves every success.
Just wanted to jump in here and say a quick hello and a lot of thanks for all the positive comments and well-wishes. I guess this is where it all started, huh? Anyway, OK, I gotta get back to work now. But I do appreciate all of it. Thanks again fellas...
Hardly. He was an under-arming/side-winding junk baller. He kept the ball down, but that was about it. He couldn't blow the ball by anyone.
He analyzed pitchers in videos frame by frame, pointing out small differences between two pitchers, or between a pre-injury and post-injury version of the same pitcher. It was top-notch video scouting.
Oh, right. Yep. Agreed.
Not sure if that's a question or a statement.
He was referencing a running gag.
I disagree.
Every thing he did was after-the-fact, which I found incredibly annoying. EG, here's a pitcher who pitched really well last year, and who stinks this year. Here is video of one pitch from one start last year, and here is video of one pitch from one start this year. Notice they are different; this is the reason he stinks.
Just once I would have liked to have seen him do something like this before the fact; as is I found his stuff interesting but entirely useless.
I did enjoy his comments on this site though; congratulations to him.
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It'd be hard to figure out why and or how to correct a pitcher without identifying possible reasons for why he stinks. That seems to be not useless.
Hey! There's a turd in the punchbowl!!!
And if you want to see the quality of his analysis before the fact, lets's look at his draft review. I need to check that out and see if it holds up to my memory of it.
Kudos to CBW, and thanks to Mr. Towers for a pleasant surprise that helps keep the embers of hope lit for this Diamondbacks fan.
I do remember of his fawning over Lincecum and saying he should have been #1. That was great. I would have liked more stuff like that.
I don't buy for one second that you can look at one flipping pitch and tell me if a guy is having a good season or not. In other words, I would have loved to see Carlos analyze pitching motions, and give advice WITHOUT knowing what time they were from and what the players stats were like at that time. That would have been infinitely more useful.
I don't want to sound anti-Carlos or something stupid. He is obviously smart and interesting and congrats to him on the promotion. I am more speaking in general of the community not using critical thinking in the past.
He reviewed the first round of the '07 draft at The Hardball Times. Loved David Price and Madison Bumgarner, liked but didn't love Mike Moustakas, hated the Daniel Moskos pick, didn't seem to really care for Ross Detwiler, and thought Matt LaPorta could hit but also thought LaPorta looked like crap in the scouting video.
In other words, he was right more often than not, without the benefit of professional stats.
Just once I would have liked to have seen him do something like this before the fact; as is I found his stuff interesting but entirely useless.
Not a fair description of what his articles were like. Looking at the articles he wrote for THT while there in 2007, and it appears he wrote he wrote:
- a series of articles on players drafted that year.
- an article on if Daisuke Matsuzaka will be worth the price the Red Sox had just paid for him, based on mechanics.
- articles looking at the biggest and best phenoms coming to the majors at that time.
- an article praising Matt Cain as a breakout star because of his mechanics
- and yeah, some article like you described. But that wasn't all that he descbribed.
Ah yes, the "groupthink" argument. The last bastion of the lone, stalwart defenders of their own ignorance.
Yeah, I think CBW's analysis, especially of draftees, has stood the test of time. He's good.
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