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The Supremacy of Dale Steyn

Posted on December 31, 2013 by rightoffthebatbook

One of the perennial questions that baseball and cricket fans like to ask themselves is how to measure the greatness of a player. In the case of pitchers, does their greatness lie in a low earned-run average, or the number … Continue reading →

Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Right Off the Bat Website, South Africa, Test Cricket | Tagged Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander, WHIP | Leave a comment

(Im)probabilities

Posted on January 25, 2013 by rightoffthebatbook

No one is going to confuse Martin and me with Theo Epstein or Bill James. Truthfully, the term Sabermetrics largely gets nary a nod in Right Off the Bat. Why? It all goes back to “leet” childhood. [“Feed-in”]…I remember practically flunking … Continue reading →

Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Website | Tagged Bill James, Bobby Thomson, Bucky Dent, contact rate, DIPS, exit velocity, FIELDf/x, ISO, Jackie Robinson, JAWS, launch angle, line-drive rate, Literature, OPS, Reaction Analysis, Reggie Jackson, Sabermetrics, Scoring Efficiency (SE), Scoring Load (SC%), Statcast, Theo Epstein, Ultimate Base Running (UBR), UZR, WAR, WARP, WHIP, Whitey Ford, WRC | Leave a comment

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