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BaseballProspectus.com “Boy, Davis looks fast this year.” “Yeah, but that speed’s overrated.” “Well, he had an EqA of .320…” “Sure, but his VORP was only a quarter of a win.” “And at 29, with no power, his PECOTA has him falling off pretty quickly. Just like the Rockies to overpay for a guy past his prime.” Sounds like a foreign language. Well, except for the part about the Rockies. Welcome to the world of Modern Baseball Analysis. The world of Baseball Between the Numbers, and BaseballProspectus.com. The world that tells […]

by Joseph Adler For me, it was the numbers. I didn’t really discover baseball until I was in college, in the 80s, when a roommate left a copy of that year’s Bill James Baseball Abstract in the suite. I was smitten. It wasn’t just the statistics – it was the analysis and the writing. James understood that baseball statistics were individual performance in a team context and knew how to separate the two. He knew how to make the numbers tell a story. It wasn’t just playing games with numbers, […]