Metsfan2011

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Date registered: 10/20/2010-12:49am

Latest posts

  1. Solving Second Base — 3/5/2011-2:46pm
  2. Why Trading Mike Pelfrey Should be in the Cards — 2/24/2011-12:52pm
  3. Why Mike Pelfrey Isn’t an Ace: What the Stats Say — 2/14/2011-10:11am
  4. We Like Ike: But Should We? What the Stats Say. — 2/13/2011-11:29am
  5. On Optimism — 2/6/2011-12:20pm

Most commented posts

  1. How Hitters Should Be Evaluated — 192 comments
  2. Angel in the Outfield?? — 156 comments
  3. Why Managers ARE Middle Management–And That’s Ok — 144 comments
  4. Jose Should He Stay? What Sabermetrics Has to Say — 129 comments
  5. The Second Most Important New Saber Guy in Your Life — 117 comments

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Dec 06

Adrian Gonzalez Trade: Why Discipline Matters

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Mets, Sabermetrics

by metsfan2011

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Sorry for not writing this past week.  Work took me to Green Bay, WI for the first time.  If you’ve never seen Lambeau up close, I highly recommend it.  i Today, I want to use the Red Sox acquisition of Adrian Gonzalez to demonstrate the value in being a well-run, disciplined organization.  I italicized disciplined …

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12 comments

Nov 27

Jose Reyes Trade Options: Part 2

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Mets, Sabermetrics

by metsfan2011

Jose Reyes Feat_Image

In part one, I examined whether advanced stats argued in favor of the Mets trading Jose Reyes.  And, found that they do. Today, recognizing it takes two to tango, we’re going to look at potential trade partners for a Reyes deal.  But first, we need to understand a little better why the Mets would trade …

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75 comments

Nov 24

Jose Should He Stay? What Sabermetrics Has to Say

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Mets, Sabermetrics

by metsfan2011

Jose Reyes Feat_Image

Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but when asked on Tuesday whether any Mets were “untouchable” Sandy Alderson listed David Wright, Ike Davis and Jason Bay (more untradeable than anything else).   Notice anyone missing?  A certain shortstop/professor/dancer maybe? None of us are Sandy-ologists quite yet, but he doesn’t strike me as the type of …

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129 comments

Nov 21

What are we going to do about a catcher?

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Mets, Sabermetrics

by metsfan2011

joshthole

As Casey Stengel famously uttered after the 1962 expansion draft, “you have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.”  Thus, Sandy Alderson aptly noted this week, the Mets as currently constituted are awfully thin at catcher.  Josh Thole goes into the offseason as the only …

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29 comments

Nov 16

Angel in the Outfield??

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Mets, Sabermetrics

by metsfan2011

balentien

Back when I was “trying out,” I took a look at some potential “finds” for the 2011 starting rotation and bullpen.  Today, I want to take a look at the outfield.  Unlike the rotation, however, it’s currently not clear what the 2011 outfield configuration will be, and whether any holes will exist. One possibility for …

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156 comments

Nov 13

Managerial Experience: Does it Matter?

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Mets, Sabermetrics

by metsfan2011

bob_melvin

Word on the street is that Sandy and the gang prefer a manager with prior big league experience.  Like any true sabermetrician, I decided to test that whether experience managing matters.  I took a look at every manager in the divisional era (post-1969) who had managed more than 800 games (about 5 seasons) with more …

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31 comments

Nov 12

How Hitters Should Be Evaluated

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Mets, Sabermetrics

by metsfan2011

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Before I continue our series on ways to improve the 2011 Mets, I’m going to set out how I like to evaluate hitters.  Note that I said hitters–not fielders.  Because, while I’m a “saber guy” I don’t have any confidence in any advanced metric used to measure fielding.  The reason why is that depending on …

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192 comments

Nov 11

Getting to Second Base–Is Nishioka A Solution?

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Mets

by metsfan2011

tsuyoshi_nishioka

Let me begin with an unsabermetric rant.  If I ever have to see Luis Castillo in a Mets uniform again, I will break my television in anger.   I hold Luis personally responsible for the collapse in 2007 (remember the let’s show bunt on 3-0 craze?) and he wasn’t exactly a worldbeater in ’08  either. …

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12 comments

Nov 08

Why Managers ARE Middle Management–And That’s Ok

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Mets, Sabermetrics

by metsfan2011

s_alderson_Feat_Image

Sabermetrics is about more than just statistics.  At least I think it is.  To me, it’s a philosophy.  Sabermetrics is a way of thinking about baseball that challenges the way things “have always been done.”  A central tenet of that philosophy, and one that has caught the attention of Mets fans due to our new …

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144 comments

Nov 04

The Second Most Important New Saber Guy in Your Life

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Mets, Sabermetrics

by metsfan2011

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I’ve been lucky enough to have been chosen as the new “sabermetric guy” around here.  And I’ve been chosen just as the Mets have hired their first sabermetrically inclined General Manager.   That’s great for the Mets — but at first glance it’s less great if you want to blog about them from a sabermetric …

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117 comments

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