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How the A’s (and others) are doing it (or not) 163

Note the First: I don’t even remember what KOTD means. (Edit: Now I do!) Note the Second: This may be boring, so I at least made some pictures. Some pictures may be more boring than others. Note the Third: This is in no way an effort to singly identify why teams are good or bad ...

Barton vs. Callaspo vs. left-handed pitching 61

This started as a comment, but given that I get paid a whole cabbage for every post and only a leaf for a comment, here we are. Hopefully needless to say, I don’t have a horse in this race. While I really like Barton the player, he has to get some negative points for thinking ...

hBABIP =/= Luck 128

This is one of my pet peeves when it comes to using advanced statistics. Ever since BABIP went mainstream, I’ve been reading blurbs on whatever fantasy site I’ve been playing at the time about how I should target XY, because he has low BABIP or how I should sell WZ because he has a high ...

How the West Will Be Won 98

I envision this as a community project that helps test my hypothesis that you can project team wins based on last year’s TTL (True Talent Level) Wins and accounting for roster changes (be it different players on the roster or different performances that are expected from the same players, because of the expected talent level ...

How the West Was Won 109

Well, we all know that, don’t we? The Oakland Athletics gave us all one of the most memorable, thrilling and unexpected seasons ever. I loved this team, perhaps more than any I have followed because they made everybody look stupid, including you and me, for predicting them to fail miserably, while they refused to be ...

Eight crazy nights 21

Well, some of them were day games. The A’s have gone 3-5 in their last eight games, with a pythagorean record of 3.9-4.1. The A’s have scored 30 runs while their opponents have scored 31. But they weren’t alternating blowouts; the average margin of victory for the winning team in these games has been 1.1 ...

ProspectFK the Last: CPL — #11 14

Because having a Top 11 is cooler than having a top 10. Voting ends by the start of the game on Friday! CPL #1 CPL #3 CPL #4 CPL #5 CPL #6 CPL #7 CPL #8 CPL #9 CPL #10 Collin Cowgill was the winner of CPL #10. 1. Michael Choice 1. Jarrod Parker 3. ...

Why Grills Begin On Opening Day (of the Bay Bridge Series) 134

Here is a very good article in the New York Times about the A’s and the Giants and Oakland and San Jose. Nothing new for most of us, but a good primer to send to your friends and relatives who haven’t been following the saga. If you want to blow another of your 10 free ...

ProspectFK — CPL #10 47

Last one before the season starts! Grant Green was the winner of CPL #9 and Yordy Cabrera is now on the poll. CPL #1 CPL #3 CPL #4 CPL #5 CPL #6 CPL #7 CPL #8 CPL #9 1. Michael Choice 1. Jarrod Parker 3. A.J. Cole 4. Brad Peacock 5. Sonny Gray 6. Tom ...

ProspectFK — CPL #9 60

Apologies for the delay in getting this one up; I’ve had an extremely busy week. We’ll try to pick up the pace on these so hopefully we can have some semblance of a list by the Japan series. Chris Carter was the winner of CPL #8. Vicmal de la Cruz and Dan Straily are now ...