February 2014

  1. Baseball Organizational Replacement Value

    As Vince Genarro wrote seven years ago , "A team’s location on the win-curve—their absolute level of wins—has a dramatic impact on the value of a win." Every year, we draw a line for replacement level at each position,…

  2. Who Said Mike Trout's Not Perfect?

    A special "thank you" goes out to Sam Miller for mentioning, on Effectively Wild , that he sometimes goes to BrooksBaseball.net for a quick snapshot of a player. Sam is right. It's great. It succinctly tells you a lot…

  3. How May We Compare Slash Line Trends?

    Former Mariners' Prospect, Wladimir Belentien , has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. While reviewing historical free agents available this late in the offseason , I stumbled across his…