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Home›Category: "MLB" (Page 2)

MLB

  • Management by Discrete Jumps, Not Increments?

    MLB, Uncategorized
    January 16, 2020
    by Brian Goff
    Tom Verducci of SI.com hammers the  management of pitching in MLB, particularly the role of "closers," in "With More Closers Breaking Down, It's Time to Rethink the Modern Bullpen." In ...
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  • MLB Umps Not so Color Blind?

    MLB, race
    December 22, 2019
    by Brian Goff
    The racial bias analysis of strikes-balls decisions of MLB umps by UT-Austin professor Daniel Hamermesh and coauthors (Parsons, Sulaeman, Yates) has generated the expected buzz in the popular press and ...
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  • Playoff Roulette

    Major League Baseball, MLB
    November 17, 2019
    by Brian Goff
    Jeffrey Beckmann at BleacherReport presents a slideshow of the "50 Best Teams" not to win a World Series.  Of the teams on this side of 1950, the 1996 Braves and ...
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  • Steroid Publicity & Hall Voting

    MLB, steroids
    November 17, 2019
    by Brian Goff
    Whatever readers and contributors to TSE think about publicity given to MLB steroid use, it continues to hammer the chances of Hall of Fame inductions for an increasing set of ...
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  • The Short Porch has Gotten Shorter in the Bronx

    MLB, New Yankee Stadium
    November 11, 2019
    by Phil Miller
    What has caused the home run derby at the new Yankee Stadium? Is it the new ballpark? Is it changes in the weather? Is it poor pitching? The folks at ...
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  • Why MLBPA Slow to Protect Non-Users?

    MLB, steroids
    October 31, 2019
    by Brian Goff
    Milwaukee Brewer Ryan Braun surpised the baseball world this week by admitting his use of steroids and accepting a suspension.  Of course, after failing a drug test and avoiding suspension ...
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  • Baseball Beaning & Brawls

    baseball, MLB, NFL
    October 29, 2019
    by Brian Goff
    John Kruk and Eric Young provide a humorous analysis of the "right way to fight in baseball" following the Red Sox Kevin Youkilis charging of Detroit's Rick Porcello a week ...
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  • Fans Care about PED Use -- Sometimes

    cycling, MLB, Performance Enhancement, steroids
    October 13, 2019
    by Brian Goff
    What spurred the public's negative view of the use of PEDs?  Why have MLB and pro cycling received much more attention than the NFL?  Some would say fans don’t care, ...
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  • Yanks Slash Ticket Prices

    MLB, ticket demand, ticket prices
    October 8, 2019
    by Phil Miller
    WhoDaThunkIt.com? The New York Yankees slashed prices on more than 40 percent of their front-row seats by up to 50 percent Tuesday and announced many of those who bought tickets ...
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  • Tracking Changes in MLB Baseball Attendance

    MLB, recession, ticket pricing
    September 11, 2019
    by Phil Miller
    Baseball-Reference.com has a handy page (HT to JC Bradbury) where they are tracking changes in MLB team attendance. It calculates overall attendance, per-game attendance, and comparisons between this year and ...
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  • Baseball Healthy In Spite of Declining World Series Viewership

    MLB
    August 31, 2019
    by Brian Goff
    While Yankees v. Dodgers would been MLB’s dream television matchup for the World Series, the Red Sox v. Cardinals setup is likely better than most.  When these same two teams ...
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  • Something for Everybody: MLB's Mechanism Design

    MLB, Yankees
    August 29, 2019
    by Brian Goff
    Continuing my recent Yankees theme ... in a curiously long post on his blog, SI writer Joe Posnanski considers the effect of MLB's playoff structure on the Yankees' performance : ...
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