Author: sabrskeptic

The accolades that have been heaped upon Max Scherzer in recent years are breathtaking.  He has won the NL Cy Young Award in back-to-back seasons.  He is widely proclaimed to be the "Ace" of the Washington Nationals. Is he?  Is he their Ace? I have been consistent about this all year.  Scherzer is overrated. Here… Continue reading Max Scherzer, Super Pitcher

Analytics are in vogue these days.  It isn't just sports.  Political science, business, the markets, and even in fields where the stakes are extremely high such as health and medicine, law enforcement, the military and intelligence, analytics are in use. Is this a good thing?  Is there a place for analytics? Perhaps.  But what is… Continue reading Analytics are The Shiny Object

Baseball is a team game.  Therefore, all individual accomplishments have to be understood in that context.  No one player's statistics occur in isolation.  No man is an island.  The team construct in which each player is a part has an effect on their individual performance. Saying that player A has a .300 batting average, 30… Continue reading Going Beyond the Win-Loss Record. Going Beyond Statistics.

Let's get this out of the way right off the bat. The ball is juiced.  Everybody knows the ball is juiced. The interesting question is this.  Why is the ball juiced?  What is the point of this silliness? ESPN's baseball coverage focuses heavily on Home Runs.  As though The Young People will see that Home… Continue reading The Young People

Let's get this out of the way right off the bat. Who brought Nolan Arenado to the Rockies? Who brought Charlie Blackmon to the Rockies? Who brought Jon Gray to the Rockies? Awesome Hair not your thing?  Who brought Kyle Freeland to the Rockies? Who brought DJ Lemahieu to the Rockies? Who brought Carlos Gonzalez… Continue reading Jeff Bridich’s Harvard Degree Led To This?