Baseball Analysis 101
On the heels of today's discussion, I ended up finding this link via Tom Tango's blog. If this interests you, let us know how it worked for you. Online Sabermetric Course for Beginners
Day: March 3, 2010
UZR Making Me Crazy
This tactic is starting to get really old. Dear Members of the Baseball Media, before you attempt to reference a statistic you're intentionally bashing, it would be prudent to actually learn what it is. Our newest culprit is Chris Gasper of the Boston Globe who decided to try and tackle the subject with a completely unbiased and objective analysis. For our viewers at home, my apologies if my last sentence overloaded your sarcasm meters. I'll replace them if they weren't very expensive. While using combative and derisive language, Gasper drew comparisons of newer baseball statistics to the masses being slaves to technological advances; these very same advances that fuel his blog. Right. I thought I'd go through Gasper's post piece by piece and see what we could find. Come enjoy the ride!