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Afternoon Musings
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Afternoon bullet-points
- The weather is beautiful in Bloomington today.
- While watching Baseball Tonight yesterday, they showed a replay of Luis Gonzalez being ejected by home plate umpire Jeff Nelson. Nelson called a pitch that appeared to be about 8 inches inside, a strike. When Gonzalez, and subsequently Bob Melvin argued, they were both ejected.
The reason I'm mentioning it here is what you might have missed. Peter Gammons, softly, almost under his breath, could be heard saying, "Please, Sandy Alderson, please come back."
Before recently taking the position of CEO of the San Diego Padres, Sandy Alderson was responsible for disciplining MLB umpires.
- While we are discussing balls and strikes, I'd be remiss if I didn't point you towards Sabernomics where JC has been trying to find a statistical method of determining how questec is affecting ball and strikes, and whether the manager in the dugout has anything to do with it. If I have interpreted his findings correctly, Dusty Baker sees an increase in K/BB when his teams play in questec parks. This would suggest that umpires are less likely to give hitters on a Dusty Baker managed team the benefit of the doubt if there is no questec system installed. However, the results with regard to Dusty Baker are not statistically significant.
- Fellow Goat Rider Jason has a post that gets my academic underwear in a twist. He pulls out his statistics textbook and examines the effect/non-effect of steroids on offensive production this year. Worth a look-see.
Posted by Byron at May 10, 2005 5:29 PM
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