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John Dewan's Stat of the Week
Who are the Top Defenders in 2010?
June 16, 2010 Two and a half months into the season, it is a good time to look and see who have been our best defensive players of the year. Let’s take a look at our overall leaders, in terms of Defensive Runs Saved. 2010 Runs Saved Leaders Player Team [...]
Stephen Strasburg's Debut
June 11, 2010 While history has taught us to be cautious of highly regarded prospects, it seems that through his first start, Stephen Strasburg certainly lived up to the hype. Strasburg picked up the win in his first big league start while going seven innings, allowing four hits, two earned runs. The most impressive part of [...]
Rare and Near Perfection - What are the Odds?
June 04, 2010 Prior to this season, in 134 seasons of Major League Baseball dating back to 1876, only 18 perfect games had been thrown. That’s one every seven or eight seasons. This year, we’ve had three in less than a month (though only two count). Dallas Braden was on top of the pitching world with [...]
Flat Bat Award 2009
May 26, 2010 Each year we give the Flat Bat Award to baseball’s best bunter. During the 2008 season, Carlos Gomez had 30 bunt hits. We awarded him with the 2008 Flat Bat Award as he unseated the previous champ, three-time Flat Bat winner Willy Taveras. We are a little late with the 2009 award, but [...]
Could the Padres be the Mariners of 2010?
May 06, 2010 Last year, the Seattle Mariners won 85 games after only 61 victories in 2008, an improvement of 24 games, the best such improvement in Major League Baseball in 2009. This year the San Diego Padres are off to an excellent start with a 17-11 record and are in second place in the National [...]
A Couple of Alternatives to ERA
April 28, 2010 For years and years and years, and to this day, the standard stats to quote when talking about a player are home runs, RBI and batting average for hitters, and wins, losses and ERA for pitchers. Here are a couple of examples. From MLB.com's Player of the Month section where Carlos Lee was [...]
Twins Twin Killing
April 09, 2010 The Minnesota Twins had a busy spring, signing AL MVP and hometown hero Joe Mauer to an eight-year extension and holding auditions to fill the closer’s role after losing four-time All-Star Joe Nathan to Tommy John surgery. But the most significant offseason activity might have been the middle infield defensive upgrades. Last [...]
Which players are poised for a breakout based on their Spring Training statistics?
March 31, 2010 This is our sixth annual list of possible breakout players based on Spring Training statistics. We researched the value of Spring Training stats a few years back and it was quite revealing. For the most part, we agree with the common perception that they don't have value. A bad spring training means [...]
Can the Mariners top 2009?
March 23, 2010 Most everyone knows by now that the Mariners are the best defensive team in baseball, but by how much? At Baseball Info Solutions, we’ve recently projected Defensive Runs Saved (as introduced in The Fielding Bible – Volume II) for the 2010 season. We evaluated each player’s defensive performance over the past three [...]
Who are the top 10 projected hitters and pitchers for 2010?
March 12, 2010 We’re back with the Bill James Handbook: Projections Update 2010! We publish our projections each November in the Bill James Handbook, then we run them again around this time of year, updating them for the latest transactions and playing time estimates. As you can see, we’re expecting Tim Lincecum and [...]