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  • Estimates of MLB's "Stadium Effect"

    attendance, MLB
    May 29, 2012
    by Brian Goff
    A quick follow-up to Take Me Out to the (New) Ballpark.  I appreciate the comments and I find the shared experiences and emotions from teams/stadiums a fascinating topic on both ...
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  • Take Me Out to the (Newer) Ballpark

    MLB, stadiums
    May 25, 2012
    by Brian Goff
    My wife and I recently visited the West Coast, affording me my first game at Dodger Stadium in 45 years.  While Brooklynites still despair the Dodgers exit from the East ...
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  • Management by Discrete Jumps, Not Increments?

    MLB, Uncategorized
    April 23, 2012
    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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  • A $2 Billion Bargain for New Dodger Owners?

    MLB
    April 3, 2012
    by Brian Goff
    The $2 billion winning bid the group headed by Guggenheim Financial CEO Mark Walter and Magic Johnson as PR owner raised many eyebrows.  It blows away the $1.5 billion paid ...
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  • Playoff Roulette

    Major League Baseball, MLB
    October 14, 2011
    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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  • The World is Not Enough

    Major League Baseball, manager efficiency, MLB
    September 16, 2011
    by Brian Goff
    Ryan Jazayerli at Grantland offers a thorough and insightful survey of the demise of the Astros in "Rock Bottom in H-Town." Many turns to the story -- hiring of Larry ...
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  • MLB Umps Not so Color Blind?

    MLB, race
    July 5, 2011
    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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  • How Much v. How Well -- Michael Jordan as "6th Man"?

    Major League Baseball, manager efficiency, MLB
    June 2, 2011
    by Brian Goff
    In 1968, Gates Brown hit .450 as a pinch hitter and .370 in total with an OPS of 1.12.  Yet, Brown did not register in the year end MVP voting.  ...
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  • Dead Money in Baseball

    baseball, Major League Baseball, MLB, salaries
    April 30, 2011
    by Skip Sauer
    Today's LA Times has an interesting article on the subject of contracts gone bad in baseball.  As used in the baseball world, the term "dead money," is analogous to the economic concept ...
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  • Valuing Pujols

    bargaining, baseball, marginal revenue product, MLB, salaries
    February 14, 2011
    by Skip Sauer
    Dave Cameron's piece in today's WSJ presents a simple calculation of Albert Pujols' value.  Cameron's analysis leads him to conclude that Pujols "deserves to be the highest-paid player in baseball history," ...
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