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Now, we're not saying that the sainted members of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) are complete dorks or anything, but witness these earth-scorching quotes from their announcement that the 2006 SABR convention will be held in Seattle. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=114156&view=rss&microfeed=true The book Freakonomics has become a mammoth bestseller, with its askew looks on just about every measure of economic analysis. As would have to inevitably happen, one of those askew looks ended up landing on baseball, specifically Michael Lewis' own bestseller Moneyball and the Oakland A's. Author Stephen A. Levitt claimed, in a blog post in April, that the Moneyball principle was a fraud and that the A's were destined to finish under .500 this year. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=114053&view=rss&microfeed=true If the sabermetric nerds ran the planet, Roger Clemens would have been carried off the Minute Maid Park field last night. In a 9-0 loss to the Reds, Clemens, according to The Hardball Times' Lee Sinins, set the all-time record in the RSAA (Runs Saved Against Average) statistic. What does that mean? We're not sure, actually. We read an explanation of it once, but we saw a squirrel out our window and kind of droned off. But anyway, Clemens passed Lefty Grove last night for the all-time RSAA title. So there you go, you dorks. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108936&view=rss&microfeed=true Because cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's and Robin Williams have all been cured, scientists are now tackling the big issues: How To Hit A Baseball. (Because you know these dorks were cut from the tee-ball team.) In an article in American Scientist magazine, three eggheads explain the physics of baseball, specifically in regard to the extreme difficult of hitting a 95-mph fastball. It's actually a fascinating piece, particularly its conclusion: More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=108902&view=rss&microfeed=true We love the Baseball Prospectus guys. They're fun, they're smart, they're scrappy and they're usually right. But sometimes they exhaust us. In a story about the offensive explosion of the last decade (subscription required), they produce the above graph. More »
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It's a shame the Chicago Sun-Times had to go and ruin all our fun; they've refuted the story that Carlos Zambrano's recent injury woes were due to too much time on the computer. The Cubs say that Zambrano's injury is not carpal tunnel syndrome, though they admit they did ask him to spend less time online. Zambrano reportedly spends his computer time talking to his brother, or, as we called it in junior high, "talking to his brother." According to reports, Zambrano spends four or five hours a day typing on the computer, which, um, is, totally bad, right? More »
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