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Written by Mike Podhorzer
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Friday, 27 August 2010 09:34 |
 Jose Bautista's shocking performance may very well be the biggest story of the baseball season so far. Naturally, the biggest question people have is if he could do anything close to this next year or if he is a Brady Anderson-esque fluke.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 August 2010 19:16 )
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Written by Mike Podhorzer
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Friday, 20 August 2010 08:55 |
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A couple of weeks ago I looked at the leaders in swinging strike percentage and compared it with their strikeout rates. That was a good method to identify pitchers whose swinging strike percentage suggests a higher strikeout rate. This time I wanted to examine the strikeout rate leaders and see if any of them have lower swinging strike percentages than you would expect, which might suggest an imminent K/9 decline.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 20 August 2010 09:39 )
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Written by Mike Podhorzer
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Friday, 06 August 2010 10:20 |
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One of my favorite stats on FanGraphs is swinging strike percentage for pitchers.The metric calculations the percentage of pitches that result in swinging strikes. A swinging strike is the ultimate sign of dominant stuff, so it would stand to reason that this should have a high correlation with strikeout rate.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 06 August 2010 15:28 )
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Written by Mike Podhorzer
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Friday, 30 July 2010 12:28 |
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What, not a trade deadline article? Nah, too boring. You could get strong analysis on the deadline deals from a number of other sites, like FanGraphs, or quench your rumor appetite from MLB Trade Rumors. So instead, today I will beat into your brains that you just cannot take ERA at face value and Zack Greinke will be our punching bag.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 30 July 2010 15:52 )
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Written by Mike Podhorzer
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Friday, 16 July 2010 09:09 |
Earlier this week, I received the first unsolicited trade offer in a while in my main local 12-team mixed league (standard rules, roster requirements and categories). Amazingly, I have not made a trade all season in the league, which only supports my theory that buying low and selling high is dead and it gets tougher and tougher to trade each and every season.
Evaluating trades can sometimes be very difficult. This specific offer really had me thinking, so I thought I would share my thought process. This article will lay out the offer, context of my situation and the reasons to accept and decline the trade. I have already made my decision on the offer, but I would like to hear from you as to whether I should or should not have accepted the trade, so comments are requested! Once I get five comments, I will tell you what I ended up doing.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 16 July 2010 09:27 )
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Written by Mike Podhorzer
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Friday, 09 July 2010 09:23 |
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With the trade deadline quickly approaching, it may be time to speculate on potential new closers if you have the bench room. Yes, many fantasy articles have been written over the past week about this very subject, including one just two days ago by Anthony Catanzano, but I wanted to go a little more in-depth with the potential replacements to try to figure out who those may be.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 July 2010 09:34 )
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Written by Mike Podhorzer
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Friday, 02 July 2010 10:48 |
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Yes, I said it. Though if you have been reading my stuff for a while, you probably cannot be too surprised. Forget about a pitcher's ERA and WHIP right now or a hitter's batting average. They just do not mean very much.
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Written by Mike Podhorzer
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Friday, 25 June 2010 09:15 |
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Sometimes I wish I owned worse players on my team. How many times do you find a free agent you want to add, but then you look at your team and realize you have no one you are willing to drop? Happens to me way too often and it makes me feel like I should have drafted more poorly. Anyway, for those with the bench room and droppable players, here are some guys who might be worth stashing for various reasons, assuming a non-keeper league.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 25 June 2010 09:33 )
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Written by Mike Podhorzer
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Friday, 18 June 2010 10:17 |
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As you may have noticed, offense is way down this season. Though it would probably be better to compare offensive levels through the same number of games in previous years, I don't know how to do that easily and so let us take a look at how it compares to the full seasons of past years. As you could imagine, this shift toward pitching will affect the values of fantasy players
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Last Updated ( Friday, 18 June 2010 10:40 )
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Written by Mike Podhorzer
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Friday, 11 June 2010 09:23 |
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For those experienced in mutual fund investing, you may have heard the term "Investor Returns". If you are unfamiliar with this term, it is a dollar-weighted figure that measures the returns that the average investor actually earned from the fund, based on dollar inflows and outflows. This number could be found on Morningstar.com. This is as opposed to a mutual fund's standard historical return (called Total Return on Morningstar) that you will see in the performance tables, which is a time-weighted return and simply assumes you purchased the fund at the beginning of the period and held it since. What you will undoubtedly notice is that the majority of the time, the investor returns are lower than the total returns. Why is this and why the heck am I talking about mutual fund investors on a fantasy baseball site?
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 12 June 2010 07:42 )
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