Peripheral Stats

4 posts

  1. Who Said Mike Trout's Not Perfect?

    A special "thank you" goes out to Sam Miller for mentioning, on Effectively Wild , that he sometimes goes to BrooksBaseball.net for a quick snapshot of a player. Sam is right. It's great. It succinctly tells you a lot…

  2. So What's the Scenario?

    "Funny how falling feels like flying, even for a little while." - Bad Blake Bud Selig should be ashamed of himself. Losing the One Game Playoff is cruel to emotionally invested baseball fans. If what happened to the…

  3. June Swoons and Stars or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love BABiP and K/BB Rates

    It's June 1st, and that can mean many things. for one: regression. Below are a couple of arrangements of players, as squads, whose April/May performances stand out from the norm. Potential June Swoons C: Carlos Ruiz ,…

  4. Baby Steps with Peripheral Stats

    It's too early in the 2011 season to find much meaning in comparing player statistics, especially pitchers, the league leader in Innings Pitched has just 16. Predicting future pitching performance is one of the more…