You’ve seen it with your own eyes, every single game you watched live or on a screen: Defensive shifting is up more than 350% since 2014, and that was after a 500% increase from four years before that.

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Who is the best at each position throughout the history of each major league baseball franchise? Now Taking the Field provides robust 30-man all-time dream team rosters, selected based on Wins Above Replacement (WAR), traditional statistics, awards, and post-seas..

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Who is the best at each position throughout the history of each major league baseball franchise? Now Taking the Field provides robust 30-man all-time dream team rosters, selected based on Wins Above Replacement (WAR), traditional statistics, awards, and post-seas..

Price: $24.95

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-Dividing Baseball History into Eras -Classical Sport -Big Game Pitchers -Going Out on Top -Let Me Offend You -Hot Hand Question -Jumping the Fictional Shark -The Analogy of the Fisherman -Mindless Education -The 300-Win Pool -The Standards of a Hall of Fam..]]> https://actasports.com/solid-fools-gold/ Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:52:58 +0000 https://actasports.com/solid-fools-gold/

Since he first began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in the 1980s, Bill James has constantly challenged conventional wisdom by asking simple questions like, "Is that really true?" or "What if we looked at the question this way?" He has sparked a ..

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Since he first began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in the 1980s, Bill James has constantly challenged conventional wisdom by asking simple questions like, "Is that really true?" or "What if we looked at the question this way?" He has sparked a ..

Price: $16.95

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Since he first began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in the 1980s, Bill James has constantly challenged conventional wisdom by asking simple questions like, "Is that really true?" or "What if we looked at the question this way?" He has sparked a ..]]> https://actasports.com/new-ballgame/ Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:52:49 +0000 https://actasports.com/new-ballgame/

As the use of statistics becomes ever more popular, and essential, in baseball, The New Ballgame provides a user-friendly explanation of the increasingly complex statistics used in the game.

Written by Glenn Guzzo, author of the award-winning

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As the use of statistics becomes ever more popular, and essential, in baseball, The New Ballgame provides a user-friendly explanation of the increasingly complex statistics used in the game.