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Video: 'Before the Bell' special for next week's TNA Genesis pay-per-view
TNA presents its first pay-per-view (PPV) of the year on Jan. 8, 2012, when Genesis hits the airwaves. Thanks to a pre-Christmas Impact taping frenzy the Orlando promotion had, all the events leading up to the event have been in the can for a week or so now which in turn has already helped form a...
Staturday: Monday Free Agent Edition
Given the big news of the day … no, the team hasn’t signed a big free agent or come through with another blockbuster trade … the big news is that UZR, the gold standard in defensive stats, is now available for all at the fantastic fangraphs.com. I thought, with this new tool, it...
Staturday: Jack & Ichiro: Still Two of a Kind?
Back in March I commented on the similarity between the way Ichiro Suzuki and Jack Cust produce very, very dissimilar results. Ichiro has confounded PECOTA for years because he is a truly unique player. Jack Cust, with his limited MLB experience, had not had the chance to prove whether his own...
Staturday: Pitch, Blease: The Final Pitch
I present to you the fourth and final installment of Pitch, Blease. We have looked at the wide variety of pitches thrown in the majors as identified and described using PitchFX data. To this point, the key things we have learned are that having a good fastball is important – but having...
Staturday: Draft Edition
Some readers of this site may have noticed that there has been quite a lot of activity surrounding a recent event, the 2008 Major League Rule 4 Draft. Although it is not typically accompanied with the same fanfare of the NFL or NBA’s draft, these two days in early June have more of an impact...
Staturday: Pitch, Blease: A Multi-Volume Profile on Pitches and the Pitchers who Throw Them
Introduction So in the ever-expanding mass of information available to we baseball fans, one of the newer tools available is PitchFX data – data on the speed and break of pitches thrown – data which allows smart guys and gals to identify the pitches a pitcher throws. Rather than...
Staturday: Jack & Ichiro: Two of a Kind
Two of a kind, for your information, we're two of a kind Two of a kind, it's my observation, we're two of a kind Like peas in a pod And birds of a feather Alone or together, you'll find That we are two-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo of a kind <!--[if...
Staturday: What will be, What w/could have been, and What the heck happened? PT was right!
STOP READING – SPOILER ALERT! This column will project the upcoming season with such frightening precision that playing the games will be little more than a novelty. The only reason to attend a game will be to drink over priced beer, eat garlic fries and enjoy the beats pounded out of the left...
Staturday: And Then There Were Three ...
Blez seems to find himself scraping the bottom of the barrel, but here I am, front and center. I have neither song to sing nor any stories of alien invaders, bent on imposing rationality on the statistical world to amuse you. I merely offer some numbers – simple numbers – that will hopefully paint...
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