Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Verducci: Offensive decline leads list of 10 early-season trends to watch
(sportsillustrated.cnn.com)
And not clicking on Verducci is quickly becoming another one!
Read More...1. Hitting in the major leagues is fundamentally broken
What will it take for teams to start admitting that this passive-aggressive, run-up-the-pitch-count philosophy isn’t working? Apparently almost a decade of declining results isn’t enough. Entering this week:
• The number of hits per game is down for the seventh straight year.
• On base percentage has been stagnant or down for the seventh straight year.
• Strikeouts ...
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1. spycake posted on January 18, 2013 at 05:27 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Nice. Greg did a lot of fine research and was a pleasure to interact with on r.s.bb.
Here's a piece he wrote on pitching to the score for Baseball Prospectus in 1997. Everything on Baseball Prospectus is free today, so it's your chance to read away.
as he was in person.
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