Bill James
3 July 2008
rsquo;s team scores another run in the eighth or ninth inning, putting that elusive S out of reach. Bill James and other sabermetricians argue against the closer’s sudden importance for this and other reasons: sometimes, a game is decided in the sixth or seventh inning, but no self-respecting manager today would “waste” his closer to “save” the game at that point—and the saves stat wouldn’t recognize it if he did.
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23 June 2008
Damn! I pulled out the old reliable Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract revised, published in 2001. Great book to have lying around to learn about each decade of baseball since 1870. He also rates the top 100 players at each position, gives history, opinion and analysis. The analysis is not something I'm crazy about. Gimmee the plain stats. No sabermetrics, win shares and other goofy mathematical formulas. I don't need to think about it that hard.
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