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Friday, March 31, 2006

Overdue

An article where I give the Cubs best case scenario for 2006 is up on Baseball Prospectus listing the numerous reasons this is our year.

MLB.com had this sobering passage today as well:

Arms race, Part II: Mark Prior was recalled from Triple-A Iowa on May 22, 2002. Since then, the Cubs' regular-season schedule has covered 677 days. Prior and/or Kerry Wood have been on the disabled list for 248 days (37 percent) with both of them being on the DL at the same time for 52 days. At least one of the two pitchers has been on the DL for more than half the season in each of the last two years.

The longest stretches with both off the disabled list are: 103 days, from May 22, 2002, to Sept. 1, 2002 (the first 103 days); and 116 days, from Sept. 17, 2002, to July 11, 2003.

The longest stretch with at least one of them on the DL: 97 days, from April 5, 2004, to July 10, 2004. The current streak is 34 in-season days with Wood missing the last month of the 2005 season


Depressing.

As I write this newly christened starter Sean Marshall is getting hit pretty hard by the Padres giving up 6 runs in less than 6 innings. He'll get his first big league start against the Reds on April 9th.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Winning Jobs

Since we're nearing the end of spring training and jobs are being won, here's just a quick update of some of those prospects who've stood out this spring culled from the Baseball America's newsletter (BTW, if you don't have a subscription you should). Sorry I'm only listing batting averages but I'm lazy and didn't wan't to go grab something more sophisticated.


TM PLAYERS AVG

FLA Willingham, Josh lf ........ .452

ARI Jackson, Conor 1b .......... .447

ATL Jurries, James 1b .......... .435

CLE Dubois, Jason rf ........... .408

SD Barfield, Josh 2b .......... .392

ATL Diaz, Matt lf .............. .364

CWS Anderson, Brian cf ......... .344

WAS Zimmerman, Ryan 3b ......... .342

LAA Napoli, Mike c ............. .333

LAD Martin, Russell c .......... .333

FLA Ramirez, Hanley ss ......... .328

Interesting that former Cub Jason Dubois has had a quietly good spring and although I believe he'll start in the minors, he seems primed to be take advantage of injuries and slow starts. Matt Diaz, formerly of the Royals, also continues to hit as he always does and obviously could never have helpd the Royals...nope.

Schrödinger's Bat

My first column on Baseball Prospectus is now live on the site. The subject is Wily Mo Pena and taking a closer look at the projections for his career.

The column name, "Schrödinger's Bat" (suggested by Will Carroll), is a play on the thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 that attempted to illustrate the incompleteness of one of the popular interpretations of quantum mechanics. The relation to baseball is that through the column I hope to pose questions, look for answers, and challenge both conventional and sabermetric wisdom. At least that's the plan.

And for your entertainment pleasure here's a list of candidate column names that didn't quite make the list - some of which are very good however and others, well...

  • Diamond Derivatives

  • In the Wheelhouse

  • Caught Looking

  • Outliers

  • Diamonod Numeracy

  • The Diamond Out-Foxed

  • Regressing to the Mean

  • Playing the Carom

  • Tools of Ignorance

  • Painting the Corners

  • Deep in the Count

  • Gorks, Bleeders, and Ducksnorts

  • Seamscape

  • The Yakker

  • Creasing the Bean (hitting a batter in the head)

  • Number Crunch

  • Two Run Balk

  • Numerology

  • Numbers Shmumbers

  • The Official Scorer

  • Keeping Score

  • Guarding the Line(s)

  • Uncle Charlie

  • Trending Upward

  • Batterplot

  • My Spreadhsheet is Bigger Than Your Spreadsheet

  • Diagnosis: Fun

  • Gladys the Groovy Mule

  • Measuring the Bases

  • Stealing Signs

  • Open Foxhole

  • Diamond Punditry

  • Flipping Deuces

  • Popping the Hood: Inside the Diamond

  • The Purpose Pitch

  • Baseballometry

  • Working The Corners

  • Double-Switches: Stats, the Game, and the Stats

  • Gleaming the Diamond

  • The Rundown

  • Dying Quail

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Breaking 100

My buddy Ron, who lives in Kansas City and is a life-long Royals fan, has started a blog called Breaking 100 "dedicated to the Kansas City Royals and their efforts to avoid another 100 loss season in 2006."

The store is open and ideas (and contributions) are welcome!

Goodbye Super Joe, Hello Angel

Well, the Royals claimed Tony Graffanino off of waivers from the Red Sox yesterday and released "Super Joe" McEwing. They also claimed right-handed reliever Steve Andrade from the Padres.

With the acquisition of Graffanino and Andrade and with Esteban German still in camp competing to be the utility infielder, that means they also put Chip Ambres on waivers to make space on the 40-man roster. So essentially Allard Baird has reversed the deal he made last season and for which I and others have praised him since I would imagine somebody will want to pick up Ambres.

Ambres isn't spectacular by any means but at age 26 he could still become a very useful player while Graffanino is what he is - a 34 year-old backup second baseman making considerably more money. So now the Royals have two second baseman they can deal at the deadline, which is ok, but despite hitting .180 in spring training (small sample size alert) Ambres seems to still have some upside.

On the Cubs front Baseball America noted today that Angel Pagan appears to have won a backup outfielder job in part because of the retirement of Marquis Grissom. Pagan also won the Ron Santo/Billy Williams Rookie of the Spring Award for the Cubs by going 15-37 with 4 homeruns.

What I don't like about this is that now the Cubs outfielders include Juan Pierre, Jacque Jones, Matt Murton, Angel Pagan, and John Mabry with Michael Restovich waiting in the wings. Ugh. Pagan certainly hasn't shown in the minors that he's ready for the majors with little power, a poor walk rate and strikeout to walk ratio, as well as poor stolen base percentages combining to make him the poor man's Grissom. The end result is that the Cubs got younger but not any better.

Also, as currently configured, that means the Cubs outfield may just vie for the worst production in the majors in 2006.

Jim Hendry, meet Chip Ambres.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Q&A with Jim Bouton

Just disovered that ArmchairGM.com is hosting its first "Community Q&A" this week. The guest is Jim Bouton of Ball Four fame. Bouton will also be the featured speaker at SABR 36 in Seattle this summer.

Users can leave questions for Mr. Bouton over the course of the next week as well as rate the questions submitted by others. The highest rated questions will be emailed to him from which he'll select to provide answers.

Sounds like a great opportunity to pick the mind of a thoughtful former player.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Baseball Prospectus

Although probably not as cool as Aaron Gleeman's 15 minutes of fame in Sports Illustrated, I am excited to announce that I'll be writing for Baseball Prospectus with a weekly column starting next week.

I've very much enjoyed writing on The Hardball Times over the last 9 months and have nothing but admiration for Aaron and Dave Studeman. THT will continue to be a must read for me everyday.

Monday, March 20, 2006

Cactus League Day 4

All good things must come to an end and today was our last day in the desert and luckily the weather was a bit more palatable than yesterday. BTW, you can read my preview of the Royals, Five Questions: Kansas City Royals, up on THT today.

We checked out of the hotel and headed for Surprise, the home of the Royals and Rangers. After a quick McBreakfast where we were the only customers under 80 years of age, we arrived right about 10AM when the gates are opened and headed into the Royals practice facility. As is usually the case the minor leaguers were already hard at work and so I headed over to the set of four minor league fields.


On field one Frank White and another coach (Garber?) were working a group of minor leaguers in several interesting drills. The first drill involved second baseman and right fielders working on communication on popups. The coach would throw a popup between the two and they had to work together in calling the ball and hopefully not running into each other. Once, the right fielder did run into the second baseman, but generally the kids did a good job with the coach shouting instructions, generally to the right fielder, to take charge of the play or get out of #@#%$ out of the way. They then worked on the same drill with the first baseman involved and popups going behind first base towards the foul line. I had never seen them do this drill before in Surprise and it did look like the players learned some things.

Next, infield practice consisted of Frank White calling out game situations ("1 out runners on first and second, tie game" etc.) and the other coach hitting grounders and line drives. What was interesting was that White would additionally call out the running speed of the batter (4.2, 3.9, with 4.3 being average) and the fielders were expected to position themselves accordingly as well as play to the situation. When the ball was hit White would time the play and then call it out to the infielders, for example, "3.89" after the second baseman and shortstop turned a nifty double play with a 4.0 fictional runner. When a shortstop or second baseman played too deep or made a risky play with a runner on third, White would interrupt the drill and walk to the mound and reiterate the primary objective and how they should have reacted. That too, looked like a drill the players got some use out of and was refreshing to see. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like most of the time spent on drills consists of run downs, which frankly, are a low frequency play.

From there we headed over to the major league fields where the Royals were just coming out at 11AM to take some batting practice before the game with the White Sox. The last couple of years they too would work on drills but both days we were in Surprise they only took BP. I'm sure Buddy is emphasizing the fundamentals, right?


While I watched them take their cuts on one of the fields I was able to snag a foul ball and then I headed to the bleachers where you can see both fields simultaneously. In an interesting juxtaposition Mark Teahen was in the cage on one field while Alex Gordon was in the other beig pitched to by George Brett. I watched as Teahen sprayed line drives all over the field, rarely hitting a fly ball while Gordon pulled the ball more frequently and hit a series of fly balls.


When BP was over we headed into the stadium but not before my friend Ron was able to flag down Denny Bautista and get an autograph on a ball they recovered during BP. They ended up also with Leo Nunez and Alex Gordon before the day as done.

The game started at 1:05 so we had plenty of time to soak in the sun down the left field line and have some lunch. When the sun was out the temperatures were a perfect 70 degrees and I shuddered as I thought about the high in Colorado Springs today - 26.

There was a game too.

It featured Hideo Nomo, who was released by the Yankees after last season, pitching for the Sox. Nomo pitched two innings giving up two runs and didn't appear to have much velocity as his fastball topped out at 85mph. He was able to strike out John Buck and Clapinski with his collection of 75 mph junk however. I'd be surprised if the Sox didn't let him go.

Tamayo started for the Royals and topped out at 88mph while throwing a changeup that didn't fool anybody. He only went one and two-thirds giving up 6 hits and five runs. He also has a funky arm angle and throws between three quarter and side arm. Probably the most encouraging performance for the Royals was the two innings put up by former Red Luke Hudson. He got up to 94 on the gun and his control was adequate giving up 1 hit and striking out one. Jimmy Gobble also looked good in an inning of work and it would be nice if he were an insurance policy that could stay in Omaha.

On the offensive side Doug Mientkiewicz went 3-for-3 with four RBIs. Mientkiewicz had an RBI double in the first and a three-run homer in the fifth. Angel Berroa also had a couple of hits. In the two games we saw I don't think we saw Mientkiewicz make an out. Hmmmm.


Alex Gordon got into the game and played first base. In two at bats he swung at all three pitches and lined out to third and grounded into a double play to end the game.

Brian Anderson, the Sox rookie center fielder hit a triple down the left field line against Ambiorix Burgos which proved to be the winning run as the Royals lost 6-5. Burgos, however, looked ok as he struck out both Paul Konerko and Jermaine Dye with his 96 mph fastball in his one inning of work.

Another great trip but unfortunately, time to get back to the real world.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Cactus League Day 3

So today was day three in the desert and it was a cold and wet one.

We started off with high hopes and after breakfast headed for the Cubs minor league camp at Fitch Park in Mesa. It started raining just as left and by 9:15AM there was a steady but light rain. We waited around the minor league complex for 45 minutes or so and then headed over to HoHoKam Park to see what was happening there.


As it turned out there was nothing happening there so we killed time in the team shop and hung out in the concourse. We did see Ron Santo entering the park, looking like he was getting around very well and caught a glimpse of Pat Hughes and Steve Stone. I didn't realize Stone might be around since he was unceremoniously run out of town after the 2004 season.


Anyway, while down below we also saw Ronnie Woo-Woo making the rounds. He's the guy who makes the annoying "woo-woo" sound during many a Cubs game both in Mesa and in Chicago. I wondered what the career path was to get to be a Ronnie Woo-Woo and almost asked him. But what was most sad probably was that while in Tucson White Sox fans had their pictures taken with the World Series trophy, Cubs fans settled for getting their picture taken with Woo-Woo. Well.

The Cubs wives were auctioning off lots of memorbilia before the game including game bats, autographed bats and balls, autographed jerseys, and a bunch of batting helmets. I picked up a Billy Williams autographed ball for a good cause.


The game actually did start on time and the game time temp wsa 48 degrees. It did warm up to about 50 I think and Carlos Zambrano was sharp through 5 innings giving up 2 runs. Those two runs were enough and the Cubs never did get anything going and lost 2-0. Well, they had once chance to score when Eric Patterson got to third with one out but failed to score.


By the 5th inning most of the Cubs starters were out of the game and we had a chance to see Brandon Sing at first base. He's another guy needs to have a big year to keep his momentum as a prospect going.

After the game we went to a local golf course and played 9 holes before dinner at a Mexican restaurant on the campus of ASU. All in all a good day but I must say that we've now been sun-burned, wind-burned, rained on, and half frozen. Hopefully tomorrow will be more comfortable as we head to Surprise to see the Royals take on the White Sox.

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Cactus League Day 2

Well, day 2 in the desert was a windy one. We were up early and after a quick breakfast at waffle house we drove down to Tucson to check out the 2005 World Champion White Sox. Previous years we'd only been to Mesa, Scottsdale, and Surprise and so this was to be new territory for us.

It's about 110 miles from Tempe and so we found ourselves there around 10am. We pulled into the Kino Sports Complex, which the Sox share with the Diamondbacks, and found the four practice fields the Sox use just a few yards away. On all four diamonds minor leauers were working out and we watched a variety of drills including traditional infield, run downs, and a bit of batting practice.


At 10:30am two intrasquad games started on the two southernmost fields. On one diamond Jermaine Dye, Paul Konerko, Juan Uribe, Rob Macowiek, and A.J. Pierzynski were set to hit as pitching coach Don Cooper looked on. Each of them got two at bats after which Pierzynski distributed four cracked bats to kids and pretty girls in the crowd and Konerko took a few minutes to sign autographs. I think there was even a Manny Trillo siting.

After watching the other minor league game for a few minutes we headed for Electric Park just down the street. There are no gates in the outfield so we had to walk all the way around the park and entered behind first base. Because the Cubs were to play the Sox there was already a substantial crowd and so we headed to the berm in centerfield where we staked out some territory on the plush grass. A polish dog and a Coke later we were ready for the game along with 11,800 other fans, a good portion of them rooting for the Cubs.

Aramis Ramirez got the scoring underway by homering off of Javier Vasquez in the top of the first, his 4th of the spring.

Glendon Rusch started for the Cubw and was quickly tagged for four runs on the strength of two doubles, two singles, and a homerun by Joe Crede. Both homeruns were well hit but a 20-30 mph wind blowing straight out didn't hurt either. Oh, and Rusch was hit in the second inning with a line drive off the bat of Joe Borchard. Not a good day.


After Rusch Jae-Kuk Ryu, who pitched well in AA last season and should start in Des Moines, threw two innings and looked pretty good. I may have been dreaming but I'm pretty sure Les Waldron pitched for the Cubs as well. The last I saw of Waldron he was getting lit up as a member of the Royals in the early part of this century. When I told Ron, a Royals fan, who was pitching he asked, "Is he still alive?"

Both Ryan Harvey and Brian Dopirak played a few innings in right field and first base and Harvey batted against Bobby Jenks in the 9th. Harvey's long swing proved problematic against Jenks as he was consistently late. He fouled off enough pitches however to work a walk. For both Dopirak and Harvey 2006 will be an interesting season. Coming into 2005 both were highly regarded but the shine has started to come off a bit. Dopirak went .235/.289/.381 at Daytona (A) after a 2004 where he hit 39 homeruns at Lansing. Harvey won the Midwest League homerun crown but hit just .257/.302/.484 with a strikeout/walk number of 137/24 in 506 plate appearances. Ouch.


The Cubs only other offensive highlight included a double by Ronny Cedeno followed by a triple by Juan Pierre in the fifth when they scored two additional runs. Jim Thome hit a toweing double off the center field wall in the midst of a rally in the bottom of the fifth and the Sox hit another homerun in the 8th to make the final score 9-4.


During the middle innings I took a walk around and saw the World Championship trophy and happy Sox fans lining up to get their picture taken with it. Sigh.

After the game we drug our wind blown bodies back to the car and headed back to Phoenix. Not much between Phoenix and Tucson except an ostrich farm where you can feed the birds and buy "ostrich products" - whatever those are. We didn't stop.

Friday, March 17, 2006

Cactus League Day 1

Ready to hit the hay after our first full day here in temporarily sunny Arizona and the Cactus League.

My flight got in around 11:15PM last night and Ron and his brother were kind enough to pick me up. We found our hotel here in Tempe and settled in for the night.


This morning we got a bit of a late start heading out to Surprise and found ourselves at the Royals and Rangers beautiful complex around 11AM. After taking in a little BP (with an Alex Gordon sighting shown below) and fielding practice by the major leaguers on the two southern diamonds on the Royals side of the complex we headed over to catch the minor league action.


Most of our time was spent at the AA game where we saw J.P. Howell throw an inning (caught by Paul Bako) and then watched as prospects Chris Lubanski and Billy Butler played center and left field and got in a couple at bats.



We headed into the main stadium around 12:30PM where the Royals took on the Brewers. I noted that Robin Yount and George Brett exchanged lineup cards.


The game was all Royals as everyone hit the Brewers Tomokazu Ohka on the way to a 9-4 win. Reggie Sanders was 3-3 with a walk, Shane Costa and John Buck both hit the ball hard and Doug Mienk had a good day at the plate and in the field making several fine plays. Denny Bautista started and gave up 2 runs on 3 hits in 4 innings. Until the fourth he was dominant and had his mid 90s fastball and good breaking ball.

Sunny weather, 78 degrees. Can't ask for more than that. Heading to Tucson tomorrow to take in the White Sox camp and see them take on the Cubs. Should be fun.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Whitey Ball One More Time

Reader Guy Molyneux makes three excellent points on my Whitey Ball article that I didn't think of.

1) The Cardinals in 1985 hit into only 91 double plays. That's 17 fewer than any other team in the NL and around 30 fewer than average. Clearly, their team speed had an impact on the low total. The difference between the Cardinals and an average team is probably around 10 runs or one additional win.

2) The Cardinals in 1985 had a higher BABIP than average by around 18 points. It's probable that at least some of that difference can be attributed to Cardinals hitters beating out infield hits. Unfortunately, the 1985 retrosheet data doesn't have enough location data on balls fielded to really know however. But clearly, this could be worth a few additional runs.

3) The Cardinals in 1985 led the league in non-homerun extra base hits. Some of this is certainly related to their team speed while some is related to the big alleys and astroturf in Busch Stadium at the time.

I certainly agree with all three points, especially the first, and should have noted them in my original article. So rather than 3 additional wins from their speed one might speculate that the total was more like 5 or 6 wins.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

1985 Stolen Base Run Values

Tom Meagher points out that I didn't list the team totals for stolen bases for 1985 like a I did for the general base running.

Here it is...so the Cardinals were 28 runs above the average team


SB Att Run Value
SLN 410 31.1
CHN 231 19.7
NYA 208 12.4
KCA 176 9.0
PHI 173 7.8
SEA 129 7.1
CIN 229 7.1
MON 246 6.8
LAN 194 5.2
NYN 170 3.4
OAK 175 3.2
BOS 93 2.6
CAL 157 1.6
PIT 170 1.5
CHA 164 1.4
CLE 204 1.4
MIL 103 -0.2
MIN 112 -1.1
TEX 206 -1.9
TOR 221 -1.9
DET 116 -2.0
BAL 112 -3.1
HOU 152 -3.2
SFN 154 -4.0
SDN 99 -5.7
ATL 124 -6.1

Average 174.2 3.5

Also, although the Cardinals were -0.1 in base running advancement for 1985, they were still fourth in the league and so relative to their competition they actually did quite well.

Of course, ideally the Run Expectancy matrix I would use to calculate these stolen base and base running numbers would be customized for each team much like Tom Tango did on his site where he shows the custom linear weights for the basic events. This is the case since the value of a stolen base actually increases when a team includes predominately singles hitters since home run hitters essentially wipe out the incremental value of the advancement on the stolen base.

1985 Cardinals Home vs. Road

I've already received some great feedback on my article "Whitey Ball" over at THT. In particular Cyril Morong pointed out that the Cardinals in 1985 were 54-27 at home and 47-34 and yet I mentioned that they scored 4.42 runs per game at home and 4.8 runs per game on the road. Of course, this difference can be attributed to the fact that because they won so many games at home, they didn't bat in the 9th inning and therefore scored fewer runs. Although I don't have the actual home/road hitting splits handy I would estimate that the Cards batted some 200 more times in road games.

So, taking their total at bats of 5,467 at allocating 2,625 for home games and 2,842 in road games and then looking at their runs scored at home and road, they scored .136 runs per at bat at home and .137 in road games. Essentially, their production was the same at home and the road given their opportunities.

My point in the article was that they didn't take advantage of their speed more at home than on the road and so I think that still stands.

I also failed to note in the article that in 1985 the Cardinals won the division by three games over the Mets who won 98 games. So, one could say that their stolen bases, by adding 30 runs or 3 wins was in fact the difference. I can't argue with that.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Base Running...21 Years Ago

To coincide with an article on the 1985 Cardinals and "Whitey Ball" to be published on THT later this week I ran my base running framework for 1985. The results follow.

I was a little surprised that Andre Dawson faired so poorly and that George Brett and Mike Heath did so well. Note that Julio Franco placed 17th 21 years ago and I believe is the only active player on the list.


Opp Bases ExR BR IR
Dan Gladden 70 124 9.0 14.6 5.6
Terry Pendleton 43 76 7.2 11.4 4.2
Rod Carew 41 80 4.7 8.6 3.9
Eddie Milner 49 86 8.5 12.4 3.9
Lloyd Moseby 41 71 7.0 10.4 3.4
Robin Yount 51 83 6.2 9.4 3.3
George Brett 47 81 8.1 11.3 3.2
Jesse Barfield 39 66 7.4 10.6 3.2
Lonnie Smith 48 84 7.0 10.1 3.2
Wally Backman 98 158 14.0 17.1 3.1
Mike Heath 34 55 5.2 8.3 3.1
Kirk Gibson 37 63 6.1 9.1 3.0
Mookie Wilson 30 53 4.6 7.5 2.9
Brad Komminsk 25 46 2.8 5.7 2.9
Rickey Henderson 48 84 5.0 7.9 2.8
Julio Franco 67 106 9.4 12.3 2.8
Mike Davis 43 71 6.8 9.6 2.8
Gary Ward 51 87 7.7 10.4 2.8
Ryne Sandberg 47 82 10.0 12.7 2.7
Ken Griffey Sr. 46 80 5.8 8.5 2.7
Brett Butler 59 100 7.6 10.2 2.7
Ruppert Jones 27 45 4.1 6.8 2.7
Willie Randolph 44 72 6.3 8.9 2.6
Kevin Bass 40 67 5.1 7.6 2.4
Vance Law 46 74 6.2 8.5 2.3
David Green 20 35 3.7 5.9 2.3
Dwight Evans 72 113 9.3 11.6 2.3
Toby Harrah 55 85 5.7 7.9 2.3
Paul Molitor 70 112 9.8 12.0 2.2
Craig Reynolds 22 39 4.0 6.2 2.2
Mickey Hatcher 26 46 5.0 7.1 2.1
Steve Sax 42 67 5.0 7.1 2.1
Juan Samuel 54 84 8.1 10.2 2.1
Ozzie Guillen 33 57 5.8 7.9 2.1
Dale Murphy 61 105 11.8 13.8 2.0
Alan Trammell 54 89 7.6 9.6 2.0
Jose Gonzalez 18 32 3.7 5.6 1.9
Jose Uribe 18 32 3.7 5.6 1.9
Don Baylor 37 63 4.1 5.9 1.9
Tony Fernandez 40 65 6.8 8.6 1.8
Terry Puhl 16 30 3.1 4.9 1.8
Jeff Leonard 21 36 3.1 4.9 1.8
Jeffrey Leonard 21 36 3.1 4.9 1.8
Joe Orsulak 33 54 4.2 5.9 1.7
Phil Bradley 46 78 8.4 10.1 1.7
Kent Hrbek 54 80 6.8 8.4 1.6
Ken Landreaux 40 66 6.4 8.0 1.6
Randy Ready 26 41 4.0 5.6 1.6
Bill Sample 18 31 2.3 3.8 1.5
Bill Doran 44 75 5.7 7.2 1.5
Johnny Ray 50 89 10.3 11.8 1.5
Gary Redus 17 29 1.7 3.2 1.5
Bert Pena 8 18 1.8 3.3 1.4
Tom Brunansky 39 65 6.4 7.8 1.4
Harold Baines 38 60 6.2 7.6 1.4
Dick Schofield 32 50 5.6 7.0 1.4
Lance Parrish 29 44 3.4 4.8 1.4
Miguel Dilone 15 24 2.7 4.0 1.4
Len Matuszek 17 32 3.6 4.9 1.3
Willie McGee 56 97 6.4 7.7 1.3
Garry Templeton 33 51 7.5 8.8 1.3
Pete Rose 50 80 6.7 8.0 1.3
Rob Deer 10 19 2.3 3.6 1.3
Lou Whitaker 67 110 9.5 10.7 1.2
Tom Herr 52 85 9.1 10.3 1.2
Eddie Murray 47 69 6.3 7.5 1.2
S Lombardozzi 9 16 0.9 2.1 1.2
Steve Lombardozzi 9 16 0.9 2.1 1.2
Phil Garner 33 55 6.4 7.6 1.2
Fred Lynn 23 38 3.5 4.7 1.2
George Bell 37 61 6.0 7.1 1.2
Wade Boggs 101 154 13.7 14.8 1.2
Joe Carter 30 48 4.6 5.7 1.2
Tony Gwynn 61 92 8.8 10.0 1.1
Manny Trillo 28 46 3.2 4.3 1.1
Shawon Dunston 12 21 2.3 3.4 1.1
Otis Nixon 23 38 2.7 3.8 1.1
Keith Hernandez 58 88 8.9 10.0 1.1
Mark Salas 26 41 4.7 5.8 1.1
Brian Downing 60 88 9.0 10.1 1.1
Daryl Sconiers 11 22 2.9 4.0 1.0
Andy Van Slyke 30 45 4.3 5.3 1.0
Tony Bernazard 37 52 4.6 5.6 1.0
Bryan Little 23 39 4.1 5.1 1.0
Pedro Guerrero 59 92 8.0 9.0 1.0
Scott Fletcher 23 40 3.0 4.0 1.0
Dave Engle 15 23 2.5 3.5 1.0
Roy Smalley 28 46 3.6 4.5 1.0
Bruce Bochte 28 41 4.1 5.1 1.0
Darnell Coles 5 11 1.5 2.5 1.0
Denny Walling 37 63 3.7 4.7 0.9
Kirby Puckett 55 82 6.4 7.3 0.9
Max Venable 12 20 1.7 2.7 0.9
Davey Lopes 26 42 5.5 6.4 0.9
Ivan Calderon 15 26 2.1 3.0 0.9
Kevin McReynolds 35 59 5.3 6.2 0.9
K McReynolds 35 59 5.3 6.2 0.9
Ernest Riles 30 51 4.0 4.8 0.9
Mitch Webster 11 19 1.4 2.2 0.9
Alan Bannister 15 27 2.7 3.5 0.9
Benny Ayala 8 14 0.7 1.5 0.8
Dwayne Murphy 49 81 7.0 7.9 0.8
Billy Hatcher 10 16 1.4 2.3 0.8
Ron Kittle 21 39 3.5 4.3 0.8
Lenny Dykstra 24 37 4.7 5.5 0.8
Scott Garrelts 1 3 0.0 0.8 0.8
Dan Pasqua 11 19 1.4 2.2 0.7
Jim Rice 42 74 7.0 7.7 0.7
Derrell Thomas 6 12 0.9 1.6 0.7
Pete O'Brien 36 57 6.4 7.1 0.7
Doug DeCinces 24 38 4.3 4.9 0.7
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Don Mattingly 55 75 7.5 5.0 -2.5
Tony Pena 39 44 5.3 2.8 -2.5
Jerry Royster 24 28 3.0 0.5 -2.5
Bill Schroeder 13 14 3.4 0.9 -2.5
Steve Garvey 54 84 10.1 7.6 -2.6
Ken Oberkfell 27 34 3.3 0.7 -2.6
Steve Balboni 34 44 6.1 3.1 -3.0
George Hendrick 23 26 4.9 1.6 -3.3
Jim Presley 42 55 7.7 4.4 -3.3
Mark Bailey 30 38 6.0 2.4 -3.5
Ron Cey 34 43 6.6 3.1 -3.6
Danny Heep 18 14 3.1 -2.1 -5.2

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Bonds, Barry Bonds

Well, with the release of the book Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, a pair of San Francisco Chronicle reporters who covered the federal investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), the focus is once again on the spectacle that has become all things Barry.

Those who've read this blog before know basically where I stand on Bonds but here's a recap of what I've written on the subject.

12/2/2004 - Bonds and Giambi

12/7/2004 - The Lively Player Era

12/8/2004 - Bonds and Sosa

9/23/2005 - Stats, Science, Circumstance, and the Power of Language

9/23/2005 - Bonds is Back

9/25/2005 - More Bonds

AL Preview

Ron points out this hysterical preview of the American League in 2006.

Monday, March 06, 2006

Cool Stuff

Trying to deliver some software this week so I haven't had much time for anything else.

However, I did run across these interesting things.

AL Salary Map - very cool tool for comparing the salaries of players in the American League

The Great Discussion - Rich Lederer sits down with Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Eric Van and discusses sabermetrics. Some very interesting points there I'll comment on at a later time.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

The "Sandberg Game"

June 23, 1984 is a day that all Cubs fans have ingrained in their memory. That was the day that Ryne Sandberg burst on the national scene, cemented an All-Star appearance, vaulted himself into the race for MVP, and had a day that had a stunned Whitey Herzog calling him the best player he'd ever seen.

On that day Sandberg singled in the second inning driving home Bob Dernier tying the score at 1, singling in the third with the Cubs down 7-1 only to be stranded, grounding out in the 5th driving home Jay Johnstone making the score 7-2, singling in the 6th driving in both Richie Hebner and Dernier making the score 9-8, homering off of Bruce Sutter to lead off the 9th inning and to tie the game at 9, and finally homering again off Sutter with Dernier on and two outs to knot the game at 11 in the bottom of the 10th. The Cubs would go on to win 12-11 on a Dave Owen single that scored Leon Durham in the bottom of the 11th.

That's 5 for 6 with 7 RBIs.

I was thinking about that game today because I was testing a program I'd written to calculate Win Probabilities based on retrosheet data combined with custom team run environments and win probabilities calculated by Dave Studeman. Using SQL Server I can now calculate the WP for any game for which I have retrosheet data (covering 1970-1992 and 2000-2005) in about 2 seconds.

In any case here is the chart produced for "The Sandberg" game.



As for individual players not suprsingly Sandberg comes out on top with a WPA of 1.11 while Sutter is at -.943. The logic I use for assigning individual offensive and defensive WPA is crude at the moment and doesn't take into consideration stolen bases, great defensive plays, and basically anything but standard batting events.

Aramis and Defense

It was great to take in the Cubs first televised spring training game this afternoon. While drifting in and out of my nap I overhead Len Kaspar, WGN-TV announcer note that the Cubs would like Aramis Ramirez and his fielding to return to 2004 form rather than what he did in 2005.

I imagine that comment was based on the fact that in 2005 Ramirez made 16 errors and recorded a .947 fielding percentage while in 2004 he committed 10 errors with a .969 fielding percentage. That shows how traditional fielding statistics can be deceiving - well, not deceiving as much as simply incomplete.

According to John Dewan's newly published The Fielding Bible, Ramirez actually fielded one more ball than expected in 2005 and went better to his left (+3) than to his right (-3) while handling balls hit at him as expected. Comparing that to 2004 Ramirez was +2 to his right, -3 to his left, and -9 on balls hit straight at him for a -11. In 2004 he ranked 24th among thirdbaseman in this "Plus/Minus" system while in 2005 he ranked 16th. Baseball Prospectus had him at -15 runs in 2004 and -14 in 2005. On bunts however, Dewan rates him a D+ in 2005 and C+ in 2004. In 2005 he fielded 41.7% of the bunts in his direction good for 24th place and 49.6% in 2004 good for 19th.

In other Cubs news Michael Barrett is writing about his experiences in the WBC.

Incidentally, this season is the first I've subscribed to MLB.TV and have enjoyed it thoroughly thus far.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Runs and Winners

I have two articles up on THT this week. The first is a Closer Look at Run Estimation which runs some comparisons of various run estimators such as BaseRuns, Runs Created, and Batting Runs and the second is a review of Dayn Perry's new book Winners.

Also on THT this week you'll want to take a look at Dissecting Plate Discipline (Part 1) by David Appleman and Constructing Lineups by Dave Studeman. I like the former because it's the next step in the kind of analysis I wrote about on Baseball Analysts a few weeks ago and the second because once again it shows that contrary to our intuition, lineup construction simply isn't that important.