today is the last day of existence for the richmond braves a team with a history that dates back to 1966. the problem the city of richmond refused to build a new stadium for the team but gwinnett county ga. did not. as a result say hello to the gwinnett braves which will play in a new 45m. stadium maintained by the county. im sure richmond will just dry up and blow away while gwinnett will go on t...
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glavine has a tendon tear and will undergo surgery. jc bradbury thinks we should trade chipper kelly johnson and casey kotchman. and of course we get the pleasure of facing the mets again tonight. id like to put on a brave face oops sorry a pun so that mets fans couldnt take pleasure in my despondence but im not sure i have one in me today. tonight is jair jurrjens against mike pelfrey. pelfrey in...
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last year justin inaz popularized a new fielding stat based on the freely available data from the hardball times. this year i decided to set up a spreadsheet one that can automatically update and keep track of fielding performance using justins process. while there are plenty of advanced fielding metrics out there such as mgls ultimate zone rating david pintos probabilistic model of range and john...
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edgar renteria has had a half season that everybody would probably like to forget. the.259 batting average looks great compared to the .301 obp and .326 slugging percentage. couple this with the fact that jair jurrjens is pitching well and the tigers are a long shot for the playoffs at this point and the trade that brought renteria here looks awful. given all that is there any hope left for ren...
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filed under atlanta braves al east mlb media watchwhen jeff francoeur was demoted to doublea on thursday night he had some choice words about the decision admitting to the atlanta journalconstitution this has really put a damper on my relationship with the atlanta braves.of course youll have to take our word for it as j.c. bradbury points out on sabernomics the ajc has since wiped their archives ...
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maybe when you hurt yourself moving pillows on your bed its a sign youre not really cut out to be a professional athlete. price fixing does not sound like a useful solution to the hazards of maple bats. ht. does anyone really think major league ballplayers are currently using cheap knockoff bats george carlin on kiners korner. and a few of his oneliners from the later stage of his career i.e....
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pinto notes two related problems with blue jays gm and we were told billy beane protege jp ricciardi first the release of frank thomas has worked out badly a move i thought questionable and badlyexplained at the time and that beane obviously recognized as a buying opportunity. ht. second ricciardi has ripped adam dunn questioning dunns desire for the game and his low batting average the kind of...
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ive got to give this tigers team credit for one thing. theres no shortage of news. last week i tried to put together a timeline of all the announcements and news coming out of jim leylands office. i couldnt get it legible at less than 1200 pixels wide. and that was before all the news from the last week. vance wilson wilson received awful news in that he needs to do tommy john times 2. his co...
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... starters and a third who hasnt pitched in two full seasons at what point do the choices of the front office to use injuryplagued and injuryprone players outweigh the simple bad luck of injury......
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its been a good week off for me but in that time i managed to let some nasty folks break my blog.a so my apologies for that.a it should be fixed now even if google and firefox dont think so.a here at jfwiii.net our completely original motto is a blog you can believe in and we are not a third term of those nasty spam blogs.a we promise. perhaps thats not the best analogy to be making but you get th...
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.flickrphoto border solid 2px 000000 .flickryourcomment .flickrframe textalign left padding 3px .flickrcaption fontsize 0.8em margintop 0px a 9 seat at hadlock originally uploaded by sogrady. i havent. well actually thats not entirely true. ive been keeping up i just havent been writing here to keep all of you up to date with said current events. but anyway were back. and cmon thr...
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and the only solution is to predict a nohitter in case you missed it gavin floyd of the white sox almost threw a nohitter again last week. if you need to catch up diamond rundown 6 on this very site is a good place to start. and when someone comes that close twice in the early going of a season its almost natural to predict hes going to nohit some team this year you might have guessed that toda...
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the cincinnati reds seemed to be the braves cureall over the weekend.a a threegame sweep followed the braves fourgame losing streak within the division and theyre now sitting at .500 1515 once again.a unfortunately the rest of the nl east won on sunday and the braves are still two games back of the new division leaders the philadelphia phillies.a theyre still in fourth place 1.5 games behind both ...
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i missed a vox bloguli post last friday and no one gave me a hard time about it. it was almost like some of you werent paying attention. but i want you to know that i forgive you and im making up for it today one in jesus church of christ in decline data point occular fusion subj obama is a tarheel please forward crooks liars oh give me a home where the buffalo roam die sabernomics simple rules...
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the sabernomics blog has some suggested rule changes that might serve to speed up the game. i havent blogged about a baseball related topic in a while so i thought id toss my two cents worth in. first of all im not certain there is a pervasive problem with baseball games taking too long. how long is too long for a baseball game and how did you decide to me baseball games have a certain pace. ...
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this just gets weirder and weirder. jordan schafer the guy who used to be our future was busted by major league baseballs new department of investigations as their very first casualty. as there is currently no test that mlb recognizes to prove hgh use jordans bust came on the basis of testimony from another person whom espn identifies as a player who had previously violated mlbs antidoping policy....
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in the april 6 edition of new york magazine on newsstands monday is the following article by jeff coplon absolutely positively the worst team in the history of professional sports a eulogy for isiah thomass new york knickerboc kers. this is a lengthy article more than 6000 words that i know took quite some time to write.a jeff first contacted me about the story last january.a and his interviews wit...
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darren everson of the wall street journal asked the question is joe torre worth the moneya at the end of this article is the following i think managers are a bit overrated in terms of the impact that they have on their players says j.c. bradbury an economist and associate professor at kennesaw state university and author of the baseball economist. to make a team better he says get better players. ...
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the deal to keep miguel cabrera in detroit through 2015 and give him one of the largest contracts in mlb history is not yet official. but that doesnt mean people will wait to start talking about it. heres a roundup from some of baseballs thinks and fans alike. mitch lichtman one author of the book playing the percentages in baseball reacted earlya on in the baseball musings comments. just because ...
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finally its friday and i dont have a game recap to write. some notes for the past couple of weeks yesterday was a light day in dii south mens basketball with the only game of note being benedicts doubleot win in the siac quarterfinals. the rest of the region has to be rooting benedict on since a loss would probably give the undeserving siac two bids to the ncaas. the lady bisons lost to valdost...
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...nss business practices. since the clubs inception in 1993 it has had three owners who have employed a buildemup then tearemdown strategy. in addition the team has consistently threatened to move fwww.saber nomics.com 92 verbatim obama positions 92 verbatim obama positions the first 92 of 194 reasons why obama is a candidate of substance with specific things hes do as president. 102 things obama woul...
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...the beautiful silver wrapper from my most recent dove dark chocolate. this message kinda summed up the morning and made my stomach not so interested anymore. chocolate always loves you back. httpwww.s abernomics .comsabern omicsindex .php200802 goodoldfas hionedfing erprintsi physically removed the unused i took the pills out and the testosterone bottles the seven or eight bottles put them in the can bag ...
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filed under mlb police blotter peds when brian mcnamee testified that he saw roger clemens at jose cansecos bbq he had a funny explanation for why he remembered the day so clearly more than nine years later they talked about how great joses wifes augmentation job was to debbie and showed her. and then debbie showed her her augmentation job. if you were in the room for that demonstration youd prob...
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