Nov 21
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 …
Nov 17
David Wright has had too good offensive seasons since the opening of Citi Field, but a few Mets fans and media outlets have noticed a slight decrease in production. Every now and then, you can find a blog post or talking head speak about his increase in strikeouts or his inability to hit in Citi …
Nov 16
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 …
Nov 13
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 …
Nov 12
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 …
Nov 09
Hello, Real Dirty Mets. In a shocking twist, this blog’s staff has decided that just one writer is not enough to fulfill the audience’s ravenous sabermetric needs. So on that note, I’d like to introduce myself to the TRDMB community as a second voice on the New York Mets coming from a statistical perspective. As …
Nov 09
I now introduce you to the 2nd member of the new formed TRDM Sabermetrics team. You thought only the Mets could bring in high quality saber guys?— TRS Don’t Forget The Leather and the Lumber: Mets Starters’ WAR after Looking at Fielding and Batting Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is a beautiful and simple statistic for …
Nov 08
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 …
Nov 04
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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