WOAH SOLVDD, the Brewerfan.net Radio Show

This was from a few weeks ago:

WOAH SOLVDD, the
Brewerfan.net radio show is launched!

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Included are
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Much thanks go out to Iron Chef Napalm for making this entire thing
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I thought it turned out great and look forward to contributing to the next installment.

Run Support Sure Helps

I thought it would be fun to look at the qualifying pitchers with the best run support in 2005. Here are the top 20:

                 TM    RS  Record    ERA
David Wells     Bos  7.97  15 - 7   4.45
Chris Young     Tex  7.32  12 - 7   4.26
Matt Clement    Bos  6.88  13 - 6   4.57
Cliff Lee       Cle  6.46  18 - 5   3.79 
Jeff Francis    Col  6.37  14 - 12  5.68
Matt Morris     StL  6.26  14 - 10  4.11 
Gustavo Chacin  Tor  6.21  13 - 9   3.72 
Kenny Rogers    Tex  6.17  14 - 8   3.46
Bartolo Colon   LAA  6.02  21 - 8   3.48
Freddy Garcia   CWS  5.96  14 - 8   3.87 
M. Hendrickson   TB  5.96  11 - 8   5.90 
Danny Haren     Oak  5.93  14 - 12  3.73
Mike Mussina    NYY  5.91  13 - 8   4.41
Josh Beckett    Fla  5.89  15 - 8   3.38 
J. Bonderman    Det  5.67  14 - 13  4.57 
C.C. Sabathia   Cle  5.63  15 - 10  4.03
Jamie Moyer     Sea  5.63  13 - 7   4.20
Randy Johnson   NYY  5.62  17 - 8   3.79 
B. Claussen     Cin  5.62  10 - 11  4.21
Kris Benson     NYM  5.58  10 - 8   4.13

The relationship between run support and win/loss record is quite evident by this list. That or Francis and Hendrickson are just "winners"?

Let's look at the bottom of this list:

                 TM    RS  Record    ERA
Kip Wells       Pit  3.07   8 - 18  5.09
Mark Redman     Pit  3.23   5 - 15  4.90
Ryan Franklin   Sea  3.30   8 - 15  5.10
Zack Greinke     KC  3.39   5 - 17  5.80
Javier Vazquez  Ari  3.51  11 - 15  4.42
Roger Clemens   Hou  3.58  13 - 8   1.87
Nate Robertson  Det  3.66   7 - 16  4.48
Kyle Lohse      Min  3.68   9 - 13  4.18
Brian Lawrence   SD  3.68   7 - 15  4.83
Josh Fogg       Pit  3.77   6 - 11  5.05
Jarrod Washburn LAA  3.81   8 - 8   3.20
John Patterson  Was  3.86   9 - 7   3.13
Esteban Loaiza  Was  3.90  12 - 10  3.77
Joe Blanton     Oak  3.93  12 - 12  3.53
Kevin Millwood  Cle  3.98   9 - 11  2.86
Mark Buehrle    CWS  4.15  16 - 8   3.12
Brett Tomko      SF  4.20   8 - 15  4.48
Livan Hernandez Was  4.24  15 - 10  3.98
Brandon Webb    Ari  4.24  14 - 12  3.50
Carlos Silva    Min  4.25   9 - 8   3.44

There are some really nice pitchers on that list. How many wins would Clemens have had on the Yankees? How bad was it to be a starting pitcher for the Pirates last year?

Finally, the Brewer pitchers, with their ranks (if they qualified):

RNK                  RS   Record    ERA   
--  Gary Glover    7.79    5 - 4   5.57
27  Chris Capuano  5.47   18 - 12  3.99
28  Tomo Ohka      5.44    7 - 6   4.35
65  Doug Davis     4.57   11 - 11  3.84
--  Ben Sheets Mil 3.73   10 - 9   3.33

One of these years, the Brewers are going to score some runs for Ben Sheets.

Sacrifice Attempts / Successes

Dan Fox wrote an article over at Hardball Times about sacrifices. In the article he included sacrifice attempts and successes for every MLB team in 2005. This subject interested me for two reasons:

1. I generally hate sacrifices and felt Yost called too many of them in 2005. I suspected the Brewers attempted an above average number of them but had no data to back up that suspicion. Did they?

2. Anytime the Brewers failed at sacrificing in 2005, many at brewerfan.net took the opportunity to point out how bad the Crew was at sacrificing. While there were indeed a good amount of horribly botched sacrifice attempts in 2005, I was skepticle that they were significantly worse at sacrificing than an average team. Were they?

Dan's Fox's data answered both of these questions:

Team  Att  Suc  SuccR
WAS   132   96  72.7%
COL   126   95  75.4%
FLO   125   95  76.0%
SFN   118   95  80.5%
HOU   113   92  81.4%
SLN   112   85  75.9%
ATL   108   81  75.0%
MIL   108   80  74.1%
ARI   101   75  74.3%
SDN   101   73  72.3%
CHN    98   71  72.4%
NYN    96   71  74.0%
PHI    93   70  75.3%
PIT    90   63  70.0%
LAN    86   62  72.1%
CIN    80   61  76.3%
CHA    74   50  67.6%
SEA    61   50  82.0%
KCA    60   50  83.3%
ANA    60   49  81.7%
MIN    60   47  78.3%
DET    57   46  80.7%
BAL    54   44  81.5%
CLE    54   44  81.5%
TBA    51   41  80.4%
NYA    44   35  79.5%
TOR    30   23  76.7%
OAK    30   23  76.7%
BOS    22   18  81.8%
TEX    11    9  81.8%
---------------------
AVE:  78.5  --  77.0%

While it initially appears that the Brewers attempted an above average amount of sacrifices, that's simply because the NL attempts many more as a whole. The NL average was about 105, making the Crew average as well.

On a side note, Frank Robinson sure likes to sacrifice alot!

As for the success rate, the Crew's rate was pretty close to average. In fact, if they had converted only 3 more sacrifices successfully, they would have been exactly average. I think this is just another example of fans placing too much importance on failure, which distorts their perception of events. I'm sure you'd find fans from every team that thinks their team fails too often at sacrifices.

For completeness, here's the same data in graphical form:

Cubs Sign Jacque Jones

The Cubs signed Jacque Jones to a reported 3 year, $16 mil deal. Jones has been aweful against lefties in his career, compiling a .616 OPS against them in 779 career AB.

What if Dusty platooned Jones, though?

                        AB   AVE  OBP  SLG  OPS
Jones vs RHP(02-05)   1510  .277 .337 .472 .809
MLB AVE LF/RF(05)       --  .272 .340 .451 .790

So, as long as Baker never let's Jones see a LHP again, he just got player that has a little more pop than the average corner OFer. Of course, Baker isn't going to platoon him, so they got a below average offensive corner OFer for a little over $5 mil a year. He'd have to have some pretty good defense to justify that.

Jenkins' contract looks better and better.

NFL Draft Order Prediction - Part 2

I thought I'd play around with scenarios that would give the Packers the best draft posiition. Getting the second overall pick isn't too far fetched. The three most important games:

WEEK 16:
Houston (@ home) beats Jacksonville

WEEK 17:
Houston (on road) beats San Fran
Jets (@ home) beat Buffalo

That ends up with:

#  Tm  Record   SOS
1  SF  2 - 14   0.543
2  GB  3 - 13   0.547
3  ARI 4 - 12   0.504
4  DET 4 - 12   0.512

I like the Texans alot more than most, so I don't think the above scenario is too far fetched. If Houston beats Jacksonville this Sunday, I'd start to get excited. The big question is, would San Fran take Bush automatically? I don't follow those things close enough to have an opinion.

What's the most likely scenario where the Packers get the #1 overall pick? There's no easy one. Houston and San Fran would have to both win this Sunday. Then Houston would have to beat San Fran Week 17. Finally, Green Bay would have to finish with a lower SOS than Fran. Arizona beating Philli and and Baltimore beating the Vikings week 16 would make their SOS's tied. Throw in a win by the Bucs over Atlanta this Sunday and the Packers get the #1 pick outright!

Like I said, not very likely. The link to the spreadsheet is below.

DraftOrder.xls

Russell Branyan Signed

That was a close one! Reports are that Branyan has signed a 1 year deal for $800,000. He still may be traded this off season (bullpen lefty is the best guess), but Melvin probably wouldn't trade him for nothing. I would guess that he'd rather not have Cirillo as the ONLY other option at 3B.

I'd like to see Hall get maybe 30-35 starts between SS and 2B, just so he can still be looked at as a middle infielder in a potential trade down the line. He'd have alot more value there. Cirillo and Branyan can fill in at 3B when Hall is playing elsewhere.

EDIT: Found out that Branyan's contract is non-guaranteed, so it's hard to imagine that there's much if any interest in him league wide. Wouldn't he have opted to become a free agent and test the market otherwise?

NFL Draft Order Prediction

With all the talk of the Packers getting a favorible pick in the upcoming NFL draft, I thought it would be fun to try and project where they might end up picking. Here's my best guess:

        # Team  Record  Win %    SOS
        1 SF    2 - 14  0.125  0.549
        2 NYJ   3 - 13  0.188  0.525
        3 HOU   3 - 13  0.188  0.531
        4 GB    3 - 13  0.188  0.541
        5 ARI   4 - 12  0.250  0.506
        6 TEN   4 - 12  0.250  0.509
        7 DET   4 - 12  0.250  0.516
        8 NO    4 - 12  0.250  0.521
        9 OAK   4 - 12  0.250  0.532
       10 BUF   5 - 11  0.313  0.504
       11 BAL   5 - 11  0.313  0.525
       12 STL   6 - 10  0.375  0.480
       13 CLE   6 - 10  0.375  0.513
       14 PHI   7 - 9   0.438  0.531
       15 MIA   8 - 8   0.500  0.460
       16 KC    8 - 8   0.500  0.523
       17 MIN   9 - 7   0.563  0.491
       18 ATL   9 - 7   0.563  0.495
       19 DAL   9 - 7   0.563  0.525
       20 TB   10 - 6   0.625  0.450
       21 WAS  10 - 6   0.625  0.544
       22 NYG  11 - 5   0.688  0.492
       23 NE   11 - 5   0.688  0.498
       24 PIT  11 - 5   0.688  0.506
       25 SD   11 - 5   0.688  0.543
       26 CHI  12 - 4   0.750  0.444
       27 CAR  12 - 4   0.750  0.447
       28 JAX  12 - 4   0.750  0.467
       29 DEN  12 - 4   0.750  0.499
       30 SEA  13 - 3   0.813  0.419
       31 CIN  13 - 3   0.813  0.459
       32 IND  15 - 1   0.938  0.452

That's assuming the Packers lose their remaining 3 games. You'll notice that if they win even one of their last 3, they move from 4th to 10th overall. As it works out, if they beat the Ravens tonight, they might as well win the rest of them, since it will only knock them down about 3 more picks.

If you would like to play around yourselves. Just download this excel spreadsheet:

DraftOrder.xls

It uses a macro to sort the draft order, so if you have high security on, it ain't going to work. You'll have to turn it down to medium or sort it manually. If you do it manually, be sure to sort by winning % first, then SOS (both ascending).

Let me know if anyone finds any mistakes or has any suggestions!

EDIT: Well I found a mistake. While I updated the team's SOS based on changes of win % for opponents of the last 2 weeks, I needed to go back and do it for all 16 weeks. It takes a long time to put the whole schedule in for each team, so I only did it for any team with a losing record at week 14 (14 teams). Good enough for now.

Basic Runs Created

Brewerfan.net is having it's annual discussion about the significance of OPS.

.OPS is just a trend, so it's not my friend

I tried to use Basic Runs Created to show the power of OBP and SLG. The basic version of Bill James' Run Created Formula is:

Runs = AB x OBP x SLG

Let's see how well that formula does at predicting runs scored using 2005 team stats:



Pretty darn good!

MLB 05' Batting Averages by Position

It's fun to watch the defensive spectrum at work. The defensive spectrum is yet another Bill James concoction. From the Bill James 1988 Abstract:

"[ - - 1B - LF - RF - 3B - CF - 2B - SS - C - - ]
with the basic premise being that positions at the right end of
the spectrum are more difficult than the positions at the left
end of the spectrum. Players can generally move from right
to left along the specturm successfully during their careers."

Let's look at averages at each position in 2005, ordering them by OPS:

POS  LG     AVG     OBP     SLG     ISO     OPS
1B   NL    0.280   0.361   0.482   0.202   0.843
     AL    0.271   0.343   0.457   0.187   0.800
     MLB   0.276   0.352   0.470   0.195   0.822


RF   NL    0.269   0.346   0.457   0.188   0.803
     AL    0.270   0.332   0.451   0.181   0.783
     MLB   0.270   0.339   0.454   0.185   0.793


LF   NL    0.272   0.348   0.457   0.185   0.805
     AL    0.278   0.333   0.437   0.158   0.770
     MLB   0.275   0.341   0.447   0.172   0.788


3B   NL    0.274   0.344   0.442   0.168   0.786
     AL    0.266   0.329   0.428   0.161   0.757
     MLB   0.270   0.337   0.435   0.165   0.772


CF   NL    0.275   0.340   0.437   0.162   0.777
     AL    0.268   0.322   0.407   0.139   0.729
     MLB   0.272   0.331   0.422   0.151   0.753


2B   NL    0.276   0.338   0.414   0.138   0.752
     AL    0.271   0.323   0.413   0.142   0.736
     MLB   0.274   0.331   0.414   0.140   0.744


SS   NL    0.265   0.313   0.379   0.114   0.692
     AL    0.276   0.331   0.412   0.136   0.743
     MLB   0.271   0.322   0.396   0.125   0.718


C    NL    0.250   0.313   0.388   0.138   0.701
     AL    0.257   0.313   0.393   0.136   0.706
     MLB   0.254   0.313   0.391   0.137   0.704

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DH   NL    0.249   0.331   0.383   0.134   0.714
     AL    0.259   0.337   0.440   0.182   0.777
     MLB   0.254   0.334   0.412   0.158   0.746

I put DH at the end, since they are the oddball group. Anyway, They line up almost exactly as teh defensive spectrum would put them , assuming the more difficult a position is to play, the worse the offensive stats from that position will be. Only LF and RF are in the wrong order, which isn't suprising since the defensive difference between the two is very small.

It's pretty interesting to notice the difference between AL and NL averages for DH's. That is quite the advantage in interleague play.

Plate Appearance Outcomes - Brewer Batters

Here are the Plate appearance outcomes for every Brewer batter with 50 or more PA in 2005:

Player      PA     K   BB   GB   OF   IF   LD   Oth
Lee C.      688   13%   9%  26%  30%  6%   16%   0%
Clark B.    674    8%  10%  30%  26%  4%   21%   2%
Overbay L.  622   16%  13%  36%  18%  1%   15%   0%
Jenkins G.  618   22%  12%  26%  21%  1%   17%   0%
Hall B.     546   19%   7%  31%  22%  3%   17%   1%
Miller D.   431   22%  10%  34%  16%  1%   17%   0%
Hardy J.    427   11%  11%  33%  22%  5%   15%   3%
Weeks R.    414   23%  12%  31%  17%  3%   13%   1%
Branyan R.  242   33%  16%  14%  22%  2%   12%   1%
Cirillo J.  219   10%  12%  37%  21%  4%   12%   5%
Moeller C.  216   22%   6%  32%  20%  7%    9%   3%
Spivey J.   202   28%   9%  26%  21%  2%   11%   1%
Helms W.    188   16%   9%  33%  27%  2%   13%   0%
Magruder C  155   21%   8%  33%  25%  3%    8%   3%
Capuano C.   79   42%   3%  24%  11%  4%    9%   8%
Davis D.     76   45%   1%  34%   4%  0%   11%   5%
Hart C.      63   17%  10%  40%  14%  3%   16%   0%
Fielder P.   62   27%   3%  26%  16%  3%   24%   0%
Sheets B.    53   32%   2%  25%   6%  6%    6%  25%

And for reference, here's the MLB averages, along with the average run value for each plate appearance outcome:

               K    BB     GB    OF     IF    LD
MLB Ave      16%    9%    32%   22%     3%   15%  
Run Value  -.287  .304  -.101  .035  -.243  .356  

The HR Derby Ruined Lee's Stroke?

It has been suggested by posters at Brewerfan.net and Carlos Lee himself that his poor production in the second half was a result of the HR Derby. The theory is that swinging for the fences for a few minutes caused Lee to change his swing. The pre and post all star splits is usually given as "proof":

                 AB  AVE  OBP  SLG  OPS
Pre-All Star    339 .268 .336 .528 .864 
Post-All Star   279 .262 .309 .437 .746

His slide actually began a full month before that, however:

                 AB  AVE  OBP  SLG  OPS
6/13 - 7/13      94 .213 .300 .426 .726

As I asked on brewerfan.net, doesn't the effect have to occur after the cause? Let's look at one final split:

                 AB  AVE  OBP  SLG  OPS
Before June 13  245 .290 .351 .567 .918
After June 13   373 .249 .307 .434 .741

Now, if we can just figure out what happened the morning of the 13th, the mystery will be solved! :)

Text Based Tables in Blogspot

OK, I'm getting really pissed off. It seems like making text tables SHOULD be very easy. I do it at brewerfan.net by using a monospaced font in notepad, and pasting that into my post, between two "code" tags. The html equivelant is the "pre" tag, which keeps all the spaces in order, but the "br" tag puts an ugly double spacing between each row.

EDIT: Dan Fox helped me out. I had to set the font size manually but it looks pretty good now. Let's look at those 06 ZiPS projections again, adding AB estimates:

                     AB     AVE    OBP    SLG
  Miller     C      375   0.248  0.318  0.384
  Fielder    1B     550   0.268  0.352  0.482
  Weeks      2B     550   0.252  0.350  0.434
  Hardy      SS     550   0.253  0.329  0.403
  Hall       3B     500   0.279  0.325  0.453
  Lee        LF     600   0.277  0.336  0.481
  Clark      CF     600   0.291  0.364  0.414
  Jenkins    RF     500   0.281  0.356  0.490
  Branyan    3B     200   0.251  0.347  0.499
  Hart       OF/1B  250   0.261  0.324  0.450
  Moeller    C      250   0.217  0.274  0.345
  Cirillo    3b     200   0.233  0.318  0.342
  Cruz       lf     200   0.258  0.342  0.457

I was going to use this to estimate total team runs scored, but it's stupid not to relate total team PA to their OBP. Another day...

Plate Appearance Outcomes - Brewer Pitchers

The guys at Hardball Times made plate appearance outcomes available to those who bought their THT Annual. I recommend it to anyone.

Anyway, here they are for the Brewers pitchers:

Player         BFP     K   BB   GB   OF   IF   LD   Oth
Capuano C.     949    19%  11%  26%  23%  5%   14%  2%
Davis D.       946    22%  10%  28%  20%  3%   13%  3%
Santos V.      639    14%  10%  31%  25%  2%   17%  1%
Sheets B.      633    22%  4%   26%  27%  3%   15%  2%
Ohka T.        543    15%  6%   33%  23%  4%   17%  2%
Obermueller    305    11%  13%  34%  19%  5%   16%  2%
Glover G.      284    20%  8%   30%  22%  4%   15%  1%
Turnbow D.     271    24%  9%   33%  17%  1%   14%  1%
Wise M.        262    24%  11%  26%  27%  3%    8%  2%
de la Rosa J   208    20%  18%  30%  13%  4%   14%  1%
Helling R.     199    21%  10%  21%  29%  6%   13%  1%
Bottalico R.   188    15%  12%  34%  23%  2%   12%  2%
Santana J.     177    28%  11%  20%  25%  4%   11%  1%
Lehr J.        154    15%  12%  34%  20%  3%   14%  2%
Eveland D.     146    16%  13%  36%  16%  1%   17%  1%
Phelps T.      106    13%  13%  36%  15%  3%   18%  2%
Davis K.        70    16%  14%  29%  21%  7%   11%  1%
Capellan J.     67    21%  7%   27%  15%  10%  15%  4%
Adams M.        61    23%  16%  23%  21%  2%   13%  2%

Line drives fall for hits about 74% of the time (much higher than any other BIP type). Generally, pitchers don't have much control over their LD%, with the exception being uber-changeup and knuckleball pitchers. Wise is one of those uber-changeup guys, which is why he had such a low LD% and had the lowest BABIP in the entire league.

Brewer ZiPS Projections - 2006

www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/oracle/discussion/34328/

Name               P    AVG   OBP   SPC   G  AB   R   H 2B 3B HR RBI  BB   K SB CS 
Jenkins            lf  .281  .356  .490 147 563  83 158 39  2 25  93  55 139  1  0 
Overbay            1b  .284  .375  .448 154 531  74 151 40  1 15  73  78 106  1  0 
Branyan            3b  .251  .347  .499 117 355  52  89 20  1 22  64  50 128  3  2 
Fielder            1b  .268  .352  .482 142 452  70 121 20  1 25  78  52 105 11  4 
Lee                lf  .277  .336  .481 160 622  90 172 40  0 29 106  54  88 12  6 
Weeks              2b  .252  .350  .434 148 535  88 135 26  7 19  75  56 142 22  4 
Cruz               lf  .258  .342  .457 123 403  65 104 23  0 19  60  42 124 12  6 
Clark              cf  .291  .364  .414 141 498  69 145 26  1 11  56  44  51 10 11 
Helms              3b  .269  .340  .424 111 335  34  90 17  1 11  45  31  81  0  1 
Hall               ss  .279  .325  .453 144 495  68 138 33  4 15  67  35 112 14  8 
Hart               rf  .261  .324  .450 134 467  80 122 25  6 17  67  42 102 20  9 
Hardy              ss  .253  .329  .403 112 340  45  86 19  1 10  47  39  44  0  0 
Miller             c   .248  .318  .384 112 375  39  93 22  1  9  45  37  89  0  1 
Gemoll             1b  .263  .315  .385 123 418  48 110 23  2  8  49  30 107  3  4 
Nelson             1b  .238  .308  .384 138 487  66 116 22  2 15  63  47 140  8  3 
Dallimore          2b  .264  .322  .358 113 405  56 107 21  1  5  41  28  53  5  5 
Erickson           2b  .256  .343  .329 103 313  35  80 18  1  1  26  33  56 10  8 
Johnson            c   .226  .332  .335  76 221  27  50 13  1  3  23  34  35  1  2 
Abernathy          2b  .253  .313  .365 101 348  54  88 19  1  6  39  28  36 11  9 
Cirillo            3b  .233  .318  .342  74 193  23  45 12  0  3  20  21  24  2  2 
Rivera             c   .235  .279  .397  67 234  27  55  9  1  9  32  11  53  1  1 
Rottino            1b  .256  .298  .358 137 497  60 127 19  4  8  55  29  78  2  2 
Cruz               3b  .244  .292  .377 139 472  60 115 23  2 12  51  30 118  5  5 
Scarborough        ss  .226  .290  .353 127 394  42  89 25  2  7  42  32 100  3  4 
Krynzel            cf  .225  .286  .346 113 408  59  92 17  4  8  42  30 130 14  7 
Sorensen           2b  .248  .311  .314 106 347  56  86 13  2  2  31  33  69  9  8 
Moeller            c   .217  .274  .345  83 258  24  56 13  1  6  27  19  56  0  1 
Gwynn              cf  .234  .309  .291 138 512  76 120 17  3  2  38  51  91 31 15 
Knox               cf  .233  .289  .318 114 374  47  87 18  1  4  30  26  83 21 11 
Crabbe             2b  .220  .289  .284 127 437  52  96 14  4  2  32  39  70 18  7 
Borders            c   .212  .247  .297  72 222  20  47 10  0  3  22   8  56  1  1

Name                 W   L    ERA   G  GS     INN    H   ER  HR   BB    K 
Sheets              15   8   3.27  29  29   198.0  180   72  23   32  191 
Wise                 4   3   3.46  44   2    65.0   53   25   6   23   61 
Turnbow              5   3   3.65  59   0    74.0   60   30   7   31   79 
Davis                4   3   4.14  50   0    63.0   54   29   7   31   66 
Davis               11  12   4.26  34  34   203.0  189   96  21   85  175 
Capellan             5   6   4.32  58   8   102.0   99   49   7   46   84 
Ohka                 9  10   4.45  30  28   168.0  181   83  20   45   95 
Gamble               3   4   4.50  22   8    66.0   70   33   7   22   41 
Eveland              7   9   4.53  37  19   141.0  152   71  14   46   94 
Capuano             12  13   4.55  32  31   182.0  176   92  24   73  153 
Adams                3   4   4.57  47   1    67.0   65   34   9   28   65 
Hendrickson          8  11   4.71  28  27   149.0  159   78  19   49  106 
Lehr                 5   7   4.76  52   7   102.0  106   54  12   41   72 
Saenz                5   6   4.87  15  15    85.0   84   46  17   28   80 
Helling              6   9   4.91  32  25   152.0  158   83  22   58  111 
Bennett              2   3   4.94  54   0    62.0   64   34  10   24   48 
Obermueller          6   9   5.07  31  23   158.0  174   89  19   64   89 
de la Rosa           3   6   5.26  41   2    53.0   54   31   4   35   46 
Wolfe                3   5   5.34  36   3    64.0   71   38   8   27   34 
Woolard              6  10   5.35  30  23   143.0  159   85  19   63   92 
Fernandez            5  12   5.51  31  25   165.0  190  101  28   55   73 
Diggins              1   2   5.63  10   5    32.0   32   20   2   23   20 
Zumwalt              2   5   5.68  41   0    65.0   68   41   9   39   47 
Costello             6  12   5.86  32  23   132.0  150   86  23   63   85 
Jones                1   4   6.14   6   6    22.0   22   15   1   20   14 
Pratt                3   7   6.20  34  16   103.0  101   71  17   79  100 
Weibl                2   5   6.35  30   8    78.0   91   55  16   39   50 
Habel                5  12   6.39  31  20   124.0  146   88  31   53   85 
Sarfate              5  14   6.42  27  25   129.0  143   92  23   83   93 
Housman              4  12   6.47  28  24   128.0  143   92  29   69  104

Hello World!

Ahhh, excellent. Start em' off with a computer programming reference. They'll just LOVE that! I have no idea what the exact purpose of this blog will be. It's quite possible it will go extinct within a month of it's creation (like most new blogs do). I envision this blog being used as a catalog of sorts, for all my sabermetric ramblings over at brewerfan.net. I sometimes spend a good deal of time on some of my posts there, and it pains me to see them vanish into ezboard nothingness.You won't find any self indulgence here (I hope). OK, I'm not promising anything.