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Saturday, November 14th, 2009Candidates to regress towards the mean in 2010: The ’09 Overachievers Jair Jurrjens – This one’s as much of a sure thing as there is. Jurrjens posted a 4.44 xFIP and a 2.60 ERA. Jurrjens benefited from an unsustainable 79.4% LOB% and a most likely unsustainable .274 BABIP. Expect regression from Jurrjens in 2010 to [...]
Fun With Bill James Projections
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Say the Braves re-sign Adam LaRoche and do nothing else with the offense. Go into the year with McLouth, Prado, Chipper, McCann, LaRoche, Yunel, Diaz, and Church as their starting 8. Using the Bill James projections and the Baseball Musings lineup analysis tool, I get that the Braves would score 5.301 runs/game (859/season). Of course, [...]
Friday Links and AFL Report
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Yesterday was the 6 month anniversary of Capitol Avenue Club’s opening. I first opened this blog after my last project ended up going south (had nothing to do with me, the site’s owner decided to close shop). I originally opened this site because I wanted to have my own site, one that I owned and [...]
The Dream Off-Season
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Everyone has their dream off-season. After a month or so of speculating and playing around with salaries, I have come up with mine. It’s relatively simple in theory. It involves one trade, and bringing in only 3 players from outside the organization. Let me state that the operative word here is “dream” and this scenario [...]
The Five Biggest Mistakes the Braves Made in 2009
Sunday, October 18th, 2009Late last night I was sitting around wondering what I should write about today. This post came to me. The five biggest mistakes the Braves made in 2009. Number 5 – The way Arbitration was handled. I am a big fan of the way Frank Wren does business, but if there’s one thing I would [...]
Braves 2009 Season In Review
Thursday, October 8th, 2009This is going to be a very lengthy post. It will involve a lot of statistical analysis and will attempt to determine what the Braves did well, what they did badly, what they need to change, and generally how they got to where they are. While the purpose of this post is to examine the [...]
Best They Can Do Is Tie Post
Thursday, October 1st, 2009Update 7:00 NFL Picks Ravens 24 at Patriots 23 Buccaneers 10 at Redskins 11 Titans 17 at Jaguars 20 Raiders 10 at Texans 27 Lions 3 at Bears 13 Bengals 31 at Browns 9 Seahawks 17 at Colts 27 Giants 31 at Chiefs 6 Jets 24 at Saints 31 Bills 35 at Dolphins 31 Cowboys [...]