October 2012

  1. 2012 All Defensive Teams

    Major League Baseball announced the 2012 Gold Glove award winners last night. As a suggested prerequisite to the information below, please check out Joe Posnanski's brilliant juxtaposition of the Gold Glove and Fielding…

  2. Pitching Under the Radar in 2012

    Armed with a 97 mph fastball, Pedro Strop achieved the 2nd highest Groundball rate and 3rd highest GB/FB rate ratio among 263 pitchers who threw over 1,000 pitches in 2012. His fortunate-to-lucky 83.2% LOB% and .275…

  3. Justin Verlander's Velocity Chart

    Courtesy of Brooks Baseball , via the essential Getting Blanked , we present Justin Verlander 's velocity chart from last night: While this may not be out of the ordinary for the bionic Justin Verlander, please keep in…

  4. Hunter Pence and the RBI

    Entering the 2012 campaign, Hunter Pence had been around a 3 to 5 Wins Above Replacement guy, throughout his five year career. This season, Hunter Pence combined career lows in Batting Average, On Base and Slugging…

  5. So What's the Scenario?

    "Funny how falling feels like flying, even for a little while." - Bad Blake Bud Selig should be ashamed of himself. Losing the One Game Playoff is cruel to emotionally invested baseball fans. If what happened to the…

  6. Postseason Brackets

    Sitting in my office, minding my own business, and messing around with 2012 Park Factors , my colleague asks me for help filling out his MLB playoff brackets for a pool he's in. Not many people do baseball brackets, and…

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