Kirk_C

Author's details

Name: Kirk Cahill
Date registered: 6/8/2011-5:26pm
AIM: khill4475

Biography

Lifelong New Yorker and Mets fan with an affinity for John Olerud and the 1999 Mets.

Latest posts

  1. Pagan’s Perplexing Season — 7/22/2011-9:00am
  2. Meet the Metrics: FIP — 7/8/2011-10:00am
  3. Mets Offense At Midseason — 6/30/2011-3:13pm
  4. Meet the Metrics: ISO — 6/26/2011-10:40am
  5. Is Dillon Gee For Real? — 6/15/2011-12:00pm

Most commented posts

  1. Pagan’s Perplexing Season — 51 comments
  2. Meet the Metrics: FIP — 35 comments
  3. Meet the Metrics: ISO — 28 comments
  4. Is Dillon Gee For Real? — 12 comments
  5. Mets Offense At Midseason — 1 comment

Author's posts listings

Jul 22

Pagan’s Perplexing Season

Categories:

Real Dirty Mets Blog, Sabermetrics

by Kirk_C

" Would the Mets be bold enough to trade Pagan?"

If you hadn’t noticed, Angel Pagan has had a rough season. And I’ll start this by saying that I was never a huge fan of Angel, and I’d bet that he never reaches his 2010 numbers again. However, he isn’t as bad as his traditional numbers would suggest. There’s plenty of evidence to support the …

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51 comments

Jul 08

Meet the Metrics: FIP

Categories:

Real Dirty Mets Blog, Sabermetrics

by Kirk_C

Mr. Met

FIP, or Fielding Independant Pitching is basically an adjusted ERA aimed to take good/bad luck out of the equation. FIP looks to separate a pitchers performance from that of his teammates and ballpark factors. In order to do so, calculating FIP removes balls in play, which the pitcher has no control over. Doing such can …

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35 comments

Jun 30

Mets Offense At Midseason

Categories:

Real Dirty Mets Blog, Sabermetrics

by Kirk_C

Another multi-hit night for Jose "not Crawford type money" Reyes

If I told you in April that at this point in the season the Mets would be 41-39 you probably wouldn’t have been that surprised. However the story here is how they’ve gotten to that point. After a 5-13 start, being over .500 at midseason seemed like a pipe dream. Especially when you consider the …

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1 comment

Jun 26

Meet the Metrics: ISO

Categories:

Sabermetrics

by Kirk_C

Family Festival Street Fair & Tribeca ESPN Sports Day At The 2008 TFF

ISO, or Isolated Power is just that; a way of isolating a player’s power hits. It’s a pretty simple statistic which is calculated by taking a players AVG and subtracting it from his SLG%. Essentially this equation removes singles from the players SLG% and leaves you with his ISO. The name can be pretty deceiving because ISO isn’t …

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28 comments

Jun 15

Is Dillon Gee For Real?

Categories:

Sabermetrics

by Kirk_C

Can Gee keep this up?

First things first. As you may or may not know, I’m new to TRDM. My name is Kirk and I’ve been added to the TRDM team to contribute to the Sabermetric side of the blog. I’m a huge Mets fan who was born and raised in NYC. I’ve really taken to Sabermetrics the past few …

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12 comments