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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Friday, September 07, 2007
Mike Pagliarulo’s name is correctly pronounced “PAH-lee-uh-ROO-low-BLOW”.
• GM David Forst uses OPS, OBP, LLBean, FYI, and SOB as a system of analysis. Astoundingly, the same championship formula no one else uses.
Other general manager disciples such as Epstein, Cashman, Daniels, and Richardi have larger money blankets than Billy Beane, but they don’t use their blankets to warm Billy when he flounders and produces a product void of luster.
The fact is that the A’s will never win a World Series relying upon their current statistical formulas. The Oakland franchise is not structured to win a World Series. Sadly, Billy Beane doesn’t know this nor do his disciples. Fundamental baseball wins championships and fundamentals aren’t found in the statistical formulas used when signing players for the Oakland franchise. They don’t get it, yet the “disciples” will revel in the notion that Billy B. says, “Joba Chamberlain is going to be a star”…………Now there’s a big time prediction!
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1. The Essex Snead Posted: September 07, 2007 at 01:54 PM (#2514986)It took BL a while to come out this year, but then he undoubtedly remembers celebrating prematurely a couple of years ago.
See, this wasn't that humorous in the first place, and it definitely isn't funny 6 years later.
How many GMs have even lasted 11 years? Maybe there's more turnover in the modern game than there was before, but there aren't a lot of GMs who have been successful enough to not have been replaced after 11 years.
These articles are beyond stupid. I should start collecting them as a kind of time capsule documenting stupidity. It would be like reading a stack of articles from 1910 about Jack Johnson. (Man, if you ever want a sense for how rabidly racist we were a hundred years ago, read some of those diatribes. Even the "friendly" articles are pretty bad.)
Adam White approaches his baseball analysis from a business perspective, with a focus on the performance of general managers, team presidents and ownership. Adam is the President/CEO of Biometrix Corporation and has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. At MIT Sloan he authored a marketing thesis entitled “Understanding the Wants and Needs of Professional Sports Fans.”
Cursed with no apparent baseball skills, he taught himself a submarine knuckleball and was able to fool his coaches into letting him pitch in three games for Division III Grinnell College in 1991. He has written business plans for the acquisitions of the World’s Strongest Man Competition and the Kansas City Royals and played seven years of semi-pro football.
Grinnell? I wonder if Forman knows him.
Michael Lewis?
I wonder what statistical formula enabled Jeter to make the flip play in the 2001 ALDS. But for that unlikely turn of events, the A's stood a very good chance of going on to win the WS.
I am re-enraged every time I see the replay. If Jeremy Giambi is ever found beheaded with "Slide!" carved into his chest, well...I will hopefully have an alibi.
(I have no idea what ########## means.)
Rhymes with mooshdag.
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