by Troy Patterson | Jan 7, 2010 | Adrian Beltre, Marco Scutaro, Mike Cameron, Theo Epstein
Since Moneyball was published in 2003 there has been a clear misunderstanding of what the book meant. I’m sure much of this is by people who never read the book, but perhaps some who missed the message. The message that is spread and widely understood is that...
by Troy Patterson | Jan 5, 2010 | Bill Hall, Casey Kotchman, Quick Post
It’s been spread on Twitter that Casey Kotchman is headed to the Mariners for Bill Hall, a minor league PTBNL and cash considerations. When I first saw this deal I was curious to what this accomplished, but after looking at the numbers this makes a bit more...
by Troy Patterson | Jan 5, 2010 | Jacoby Ellsbury, Quick Post
According to Dan Roche on Twitter, Terry Francona has confirmed that Jacoby Ellsbury will be our starting left fielder in 2010. This also means Mike Cameron is in center field and Jeremy Hermida is the fourth outfielder. Overall I think the move is fairly neutral as...
by Troy Patterson | Jan 2, 2010 | Jason Bay
Since the introduction of Sabermetrics many concepts and terms have started to enter the main stream. OBP is now a regular on the NESN broadcast and OPS is often a common term in any presentation. That has not led to a change in much of the conventional wisdom that we...
by Troy Patterson | Dec 29, 2009 | Manny Delcarmen
It was brought to the Red Sox late this season that Manny Delcarmen was experiencing arm fatigue and had to be given a cortisone shot, but after a car crash he was removed from the postseason roster. This “fatigue” was an attempt to explain his 7.27 ERA...
