I’ve often referenced the science of sabermetrics on this blog, but have only lightly touched on exactly what it entails. On this post I’ll try to highlight a few basic fundamentals, which should help to give support for many of my arguments. Essentially, sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence (mainly statistics). Bill [...]
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Crash course in Sabermetrics (detroit tigers)
Posted in Latest News, tagged baseball, bill james, detroit tigers, dettigers, jim leyland, sabermetrics, sparky anderson, statistics on May 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Tiger prospect drops bombs (detroit tigers, cale iorg)
Posted in Tiger Prospects, tagged baseball, brylcream, brylcreem, cale, cale iorg, detroit, detroit tigers, dettigers, iorg, short stop, tigers, vitalis on May 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Young Tiger shortstop prospect Cale Iorg is tearing up Lakeland. “He looks like a 40 year old man… from 1952.” Quipped Tiger correspondent Dave Bergman. Adding, ”he hits the hell out of the ball, and he’s hung like a Moscow Mule.” “Olde man Cale,” as he is affectionately referred to, is batting .308 with three home runs. Contrary [...]
Don’t move Grandy (detroit tigers, curtis granderson)
Posted in Latest News, tagged baseball, centerfield, curtis, detroit tigers, dettigers, granderson, leyland, sabermetrics, tigers on May 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that Leyland is contemplating major changes to the batting order. Speculation has risen that he may be moving Curtis Granderson down in the order (to the 3 spot). This would be a bad idea. Old time managers like Leyland tend to use archaic reasoning when filling in a lineup card. Bottom line, [...]
