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How Efficient and Effective Were the Colorado Rockies in 2009?
A common theme for Purple Row Academy this entire year has been looking at ways to quantify a player's value to a team, especially through the Wins Above Replacement (WAR) stat used notably by FanGrap...
2009 Catcher Defense: Filling in the Holes (yet again)
Even if you aren't a FanGraphs junkie like myself and so many others, if you spend any time there looking at the WAR rankings in order to, say, evaluate who should be the 2009 MVP candidates, you've u...
Zack Greinke's 2009 in the Stream of Time: The 11 Greatest Seasons by Starting Pitchers Since Pedro's 1999
Well, it's pretty much over. Pretty much. Unless Justin Verlander throws 18 shutout innings of relief in today's game, Zack Greinke has got the "real" (i.e., "internet") Cy Young locked up (and, as I'...
WAR Lords of the Diamond: Greatest. Rockies. Ever.
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF I RF I RP I SP Now that I've discussed the greatest Rockies ever by position according to WAR, I'll sum...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Starting Pitchers)
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C (with methodology) I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF I RF I RP For the next step in my ongoing quest to quantify the greatest Rockies ever by ...
2010 Yankees Center Field Showdown: Melky Cabrera vs. Brett Gardner vs... Cody Ross?
In a recent Pinstriped Bible blog posting, Steven Goldman argued that while Melky Cabrera might be adequate for the moment as the starting center fielder for the Yankees, that the club should lo...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Relief Pitchers)
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C (with methodology) I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF I RF For the next step in my ongoing quest to quantify the greatest Rockies ever by posi...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Right Field)
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C (with methodology) I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF I CF For the next step in my ongoing quest to quantify the greatest Rockies ever by position, I'm ...
WAR Lords of the Diamond (Center Field)
Previous Sessions in the WAR Lords Series: C (with methodology) I 1B I 2B I 3B I SS I LF For the next step in my ongoing quest to quantify the greatest Rockies ever by position, I'm revealing the be...
Jason Bartlett, for Real?
That Delmon Young and Brendan Harris for Matt Garza and Jason Bartlett (and some other stuff) trade between the Twins and Rays looks better all the time, doesn't it? The big pieces in the trade at the...
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