Cole Hamels

7 posts

  1. Trade Targets for Contenders

    The new playoff format gives more teams hopes of making the postseason, which decreases the number of sellers at the trading deadline. If there is a silver lining for truly terrible teams, like the Cubs and Twins, it's…

  2. Stolen Bases Against Lefty Pitchers

    From today's Buster Olney column , his Stat of the day : " Ted Lilly allowed the most stolen base attempts in 2011, with baserunners swiping 35 bags in 37 chances off of the Los Angeles Dodgers southpaw. The remaining…

  3. MLB Opponent OPS Leaders

    Joe Posnanski published an inspired blog post on Friday. If you're into looking at baseball from different point of views, or just wonderful writing, check it out . In his usual enlightening and entertaining prose, Joe…

  4. Least & Most Run Support

    So, on Christmas, I went to Madison Square Garden for the Knicks/Bulls matinée game. One of my very good friends invited me to the game by scalping a couple of tickets off craigslist, but they turned out to be a…

  5. Missing Bats in the Strike Zone

    Here are just a couple of views at one distinctive pitching statistic we don't often talk about but is pretty telling. Tonight, we are going to look at two leaderboards for the percentage of swings and misses inside the…

  6. Player of the Fortnight vol. 4

    Sunday morning is a good a time as any to paraphrase. A wise baseball man once said, "Just give me their stats for the last two weeks, and that'll tell me who's going good," or something to that effect. Thinking of that…

  7. Osh's Intriguing List

    So, Brilliant Reader Osh's fantasy draft is tonight. He emailed me yesterday asking if I'd be around as a lifeline during his draft. At the end of the email, he sent a list of players he found "intriguing", and I found…