Time for Red Sox to clean house

August 14, 2010 by Andrew Tuttle · 4 Comments

With the trade deadline come and gone and the Red Sox doing very little to shore up a run for the post season, perhaps the rest of this season is more or less try outs for next year. Of the regular players on the 25-man roster the following players should all be eligible for trading […]

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Washington Is a Baseball Town (Again)

June 8, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · 2 Comments

At the top of the seventh inning the crowd began the chant, “Let’s Go Stras-burg” to the same cadence that fans in DC have grown tired of listening to from Philly, Dodger, Red Sox and just about anywhere fans. Â But this chant was all DC and it grew and built. Â “Let’s Go Stras-burg” the entire […]

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Meet the New Park Factors â€“ Part II

April 13, 2010 by John Cappello · 1 Comment

[In Part I, we saw that traditional Park Factors do have a place in baseballâ€”just not for measuring ballpark impact. In Part II here, weâ€™ll mix some physics with home run trajectories to help us understand how a future system for rating ballparks might be designed. In Part III, we’ll see what this system might […]

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