Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Bill James 2013 SABR Analytics Conference Keynote
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posted on March 27, 2013 at 03:51 PM by The District Attorney to bill james, red sox, sabermetrics
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A little old, but I finally have time today to do this stuff. (h/t Roberto)
• Title: “Wonderful Ignorance”; subtitle: “The Past Is Always Going To Be With Us”
• Bill discusses SABR’s beginnings. It was smaller, allowing for more personal interaction, and more populated by “eccentrics”. He reminds us that founder Bob Davids was reluctant to publish more than one article every two years about statistical analysis in the SABR Journal. He says that of SABR’s 70 members at the time, only himself, ...
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1. zachtoma posted on October 25, 2012 at 02:05 AM # hit 0 | hit 0Pedro -- 282 BABIP career (298 league), 6.8% HR/FB
Don't know why James didn't mention HR rates but anyway Pedro was a slightly better pitcher than Reitsma. In case y'all weren't clear on that. :-)
But Trevor Wilson kinda kicks Pedro's ass.
Rk Player ERA ERA+ OPS+ BA G IP Year Tm Lg W L SV1 Joey Devine 0.59 698 10 .150 42 45.2 2008 OAK AL 6 1 1
2 Fernando Rodney 0.60 634 19 .167 76 74.2 2012 TBR AL 2 2 48
3 Dennis Eckersley 0.61 603 13 .160 63 73.1 1990 OAK AL 4 2 48
4 Rob Murphy 0.72 541 20 .155 34 50.1 1986 CIN NL 6 0 1
5 Mike Adams 0.73 523 -10 .111 37 37.0 2009 SDP NL 0 0 0
6 Rich Gossage 0.77 465 21 .141 32 46.2 1981 NYY AL 3 2 20
7 Bill Henry 0.87 420 35 .170 37 52.0 1964 CIN NL 2 2 6
8 Dennys Reyes 0.89 507 40 .197 66 50.2 2006 MIN AL 5 0 0
9 Jonathan Papelbon 0.92 517 18 .167 59 68.1 2006 BOS AL 4 2 35
10 Chris Hammond 0.95 441 45 .195 63 76.0 2002 ATL NL 7 2 0
11 Eric OFlaherty 0.98 389 60 .221 78 73.2 2011 ATL NL 2 4 0
12 Doug Henry 1.00 406 20 .133 32 36.0 1991 MIL AL 2 1 15
13 Craig Kimbrel 1.01 399 1 .126 63 62.2 2012 ATL NL 3 1 42
14 Dale Murray 1.03 374 34 .187 32 69.2 1974 MON NL 1 1 10
15 Rollie Fingers 1.04 333 50 .198 47 78.0 1981 MIL AL 6 3 28
Yes, if Rodney had given up almost twice as many earned runs as he actually did, then he wouldn't be on a list of pitchers who didn't give up many earned runs. (-:
Obviously, the innings sample is small, but one grand slam is a pretty significant event when you're dealing with folks who only yielded the equivalent of one grand slam and a solo sh ot.
I see that Fernando actually did pitch to 6 batters this tear with the bass loaded. I have no idea how many of those 6 were loaded BY him, or inherited. He struck out 3 and the other 3 made other kind of outs.
Wait, is the fish in or out of the fish stick? I'm so confused.
Thanks! That's what I was telling him, but he was insisting he heard James discussing his own investigation with such conviction that I just wondered if I had missed something myself.
Posnanski was there, but there's no indication that he spent several weeks researching the Paterno matter, given that he showed very little interest in the issue other than bemoaning that Paterno's flaws got in the way of painting Paterno as a hero because he knew how to coach football games.
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