Category Archive: Sabermetrics

May 05

Why has Ike struggled this season?

After being considered a prime breakout candidate by many before the season, Ike Davis has certainly been a bit of a disappointment to Mets fans so far this year. The question is, what is wrong with Ike? Looking at what he has done so far this year, the first two things that stuck out to me …

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May 03

Chris Schwinden: How about a breaking pitch?

It does not take a genius to look at Chris Schwinden has pitched since replacing Mike Pelfrey to realize that he is guilty of two things: A lack of effectiveness Lack of movement on his pitches Now, whether the latter is what is leading to the former is still up for discussion, but it doesn’t …

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May 01

Advanced Statistics Are Your Friend: FIP and xFIP

About once a week, I am going to take an advanced statistic, and profile and explain it. If anyone wants to see any specific stats explained, just say so in the comments, or on Twitter, and I’ll do my best to get to all of them. For the first installment I am going to look …

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Aug 23

A Sobering Look At Mike Pelfrey

I believed that Mike Pelfrey could be a number two pitcher for the Mets. I believed that, with a solid team around him, and especially with Santana slotted as the ace, Pelf could be a solid number two. And if we added another front line starter? I believed we’d have one of the best number …

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Jul 22

Pagan’s Perplexing Season

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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Jul 08

Meet the Metrics: FIP

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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Jun 30

Mets Offense At Midseason

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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Jun 26

Meet the Metrics: ISO

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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Jun 15

Is Dillon Gee For Real?

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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Jun 09

Why Does Jason Bay Suck? A Saber Perspective

This article was sent to us in our search for a new saber department, the authors name is Kirk and I think you will be seeing a lot of him in the near future. Although these days it’s difficult to stomach Jason Bay’s stat line, I chugged some Pepto and decided to take a closer …

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