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Projecting Jason Kendall
Last night, I was looking at a graphical representation of Mike Rivera's game log. (Can't link it, sorry, but you can look at the BR version, here.) It's just bizarre that he spent the entire season with the team--healthy, as far as I know--and started less than 10% of the team's games. All this...
Projecting Prince Fielder
Let's get back to work on some month-by-month hitter projections and turn to the big man. For some background on what these are and what they mean, read the introduction to the JJ Hardy article from last week. One thing I haven't mentioned (I just plain forgot) is that these numbers are neutral....
Projecting Craig Counsell
Continuing our tour of the Brewers monthly MINER projections...let's look at Craig Counsell. For more on MINERs and what the hell I'm talking about, read the Projecting JJ Hardy article. (The site gets more traffic on weekdays, so I'm putting a bench guy on a lazy Friday afternoon.) Since Craig...
Projecting JJ Hardy
For John Burnson's book, The Graphical Player, I've been working on some extensions of my projection system, MINER. The fundamental system remains the same--it's the Marcel system, but with some obvious additions, such as adjusted minor league stats, park-adjusted MLB stats, batted-ball data, and...
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