My first order of business as Grand Sabermetric Poobah will be to ban the word "inefficiency."

I made this point last year!!1!1 I wish I could find the comment.

so you're saying that SABRists who refuse to use the term inefficiency will be the new market inefficiency?

Publishing bogus sabermetric analysis to screw over those teams too cheap to hire an in-house guy, who just use publicly available stats.

disinfometrics--I like it

I'm not going to read it, but are the Giants mentioned in the article or is it just to hard to resist putting the 'San Francisco' tag on a post about signing old players?

If we are abolishing words I nominate mea culpa.

6 - Just a joke. An easy, easy, joke...

I personally think efficiency is the next market inefficiency.

If we are abolishing words I nominate mea culpa.

I nominate "methinks".

I made this point last year!!1!1 I wish I could find the comment.

Heck, I made the point within the last week.

Compliments of google, all of the following have been described as "the new market inefficiency" at one time or another on this site:

-defense
-all-bat, bad-defense players
-drafting the children of other club's management
-Crappy players
-aging players
-Uniform asymmetry
-Unspellable last names
-Players who can't hit
-first names starting with Jh
-Decent at-bat music
-The bench press
-Gnome field advantage
-Scouts
-Bizarre minor-league team identities
-Easily Injured Aces
-Thinking all of your prospects are going to turn into Hall of Famers
-NLDS MVP bonuses
-Young guys
-Yale-educated Molecular Biophysicists
-Talent
-hiring recent college grads to upper management
-Expensive, experienced GMs
-Anti-competitiveness
-wild ass guessing
-Unlikability
-Middle relievers
-Stocking up on 2B
-international players
-Atheists
-Horrible defenders in gorilla suits
-starting pitchers who can hit very well
-kissing Pierre's ass
-5 foot tall women
-The waiver wire
-players with 'Z' or 'Q' in their names
-character guys
-Inefficiency
-wife beaters
-Snake bites
-young stars slumping in their 5th big league season
-Hollow points
-immensely fat, injury-prone 1B
-Vada Pinson for the Hall
-NYC delis selling 22 oz Woodchucks instead of 32 oz
-the disabled list
-Crappy hitters with no power and the ability to play many positions terribly
-gay constitutional law scholars
-Squeaky-voiced underage gymnasts with herpes
-poor anger management
-Love
-Pirates articles
-*SSHOLES
-apparently random, extended outages of the site
-not having to spend money in the draft
-sluggers from Cuba
-Good scouting
-Stashing AAAA players at the AAA level
-Aquaman
-players whom BTFers think are crappy
-rich white Christians adopting impoverished black kids
-One-armed pitchers
-writing a huge check and then moving on
-Losing 1000 games in a decade
-30+ year old vets

My first order of business as Grand Sabermetric Poobah will be to ban the word "inefficiency."

Any well-trained economist would tell you that such bans are inefficient.

I think Guapo's time on his hands must be the new market inneficiency.

I was on a conference call, not actively participating. It was definitely inefficient.

There is nothing new about the inefficiency of Aquaman. It is eternal.

Somebody more efficient than me needs to study Guapo's list.

Didn't they used too call these value stocks or value plays? Market inefficiency sounds like something out of a DoD manual.

My personal favorites are "horrible defenders in gorilla suits" and "*SSHOLES". Something about the all caps really sells the latter one.

I have to go with "wild ass guessing." That's always a great strategy.

Yale-educated Molecular Biophysicists

That's a small market...Craig Breslow and who else (among pro ballplayers, of course)?

Compliments of google, all of the following have been described as "the new market inefficiency" at one time or another on this site:

What about those guitars that are like...double guitars?

The old guy market inefficiency is already in Moneyball. Lewis tries to figure out why David Justice fits in with Chad Bradford and the obese sluggers, and Beane tells him, "He's old." Or something like that.

Squeaky-voiced underage gymnasts with herpes

That's awesome. Easily my favorite.

-Crappy hitters with no power and the ability to play many positions terribly

GOdddamnniti! Quit bashing the Giants!!!

Yale-educated Molecular Biophysicists

That's a small market...Craig Breslow and who else (among pro ballplayers, of course)?

Papelbon would've been but he wanted to stay closer to home for college.

Squeaky-voiced underage gymnasts with herpes

Doesn't that describe the entire writing staff at Fangraphs??

Compliments of google, all of the following have been described as "the new market inefficiency" at one time or another on this site:

Lock the thread, and while we're at it abolish the word "abolish".

The player who fits into the most categories from that list should win some sort of award...

The old guy market inefficiency is already in Moneyball. Lewis tries to figure out why David Justice fits in with Chad Bradford and the obese sluggers, and Beane tells him, "He's old." Or something like that.

From TFB pp. 149-150:

Justice was an exception, however. Justice was still a physical specimen. He looked as handsome and cocky and fit as ever...t was hard to find any obvious fault with David Justice.

"What's wrong with him?" I ask, once he's gone.

"He's thirty-six," says Paul.