Since 1995 the current Wild Card format has been in place. That’s 17 years. That’s a long ass time. ‘95 turned out to be the first year I started following baseball. I was 8 years old that summer and living in central Jersey. The local TV stations picked up every Yankees and Mets games. Since [...]
Name G wOBA ISO BABIP WAR Miguel Cabrera 161 0.436 0.241 0.365 7.3 Alex Avila 141 0.383 0.211 0.366 5.5 Wilson Betemit 40 0.373 0.233 0.429 0.5 Victor Martinez 145 0.368 0.141 0.343 2.9 Jhonny Peralta 146 0.353 0.179 0.325 5.2 B. Boesch 115 0.346 0.175 0.315 1.7 Casper Wells 64 0.34 0.195 0.313 0.9 [...]
A Playoff System that is currently benefiting our current Wild Card winner by championing the victor of the All-Star game, the system is indeed flawed. I have a restructure that will never happen, but makes sense and is fun to talk about. Enjoy. Lots and lots of people are complaining that Bud Selig has effectively [...]
At Walkoff Woodward I like to employ a use of sabermetrics, which is pompously defined as “the analysis of baseball through objective evidence”. Sabermetrics is the rope that two groups of people are tugging on. The first group are the backers of the new age statistics, the Sabermetrician, Sabermagician, or even Saberphysician. They speak using [...]
Ok, so your team loses a grueling series to one of the most dangerous clubs in the sport (one who was chosen to win the series by most serious fans and analysts). In that series one specific player did historical and unspeakable things against you and a lot of things went the wrong way. Even [...]
Since Ochocinco has been banished to the Tom and Bill Show in Foxboro, the NFL has been without a ridiculously dumb wide receiver all season. And yes, I say dumb because that’s the only explanation for what comes out of that guys mouth. And to be honest, I was kind of upset that I had [...]
Technically, the stats are against my argument on this (3.7 rushing ypc, 8.9 ypc receiving for his career), but hear me out. I have always felt that Best is a volcano waiting to erupt. Last week against the Bears was a small reward for being patient although I don’t think he’s going to be a [...]
The 15-5 loss was a horrible exclamation point on a great season. It featured a disastrous 3rd inning, bad umpiring, bad fielding, and quite of bit of luck that went the Rangers way. But, I’m done with it. I can’t focus on this lone game because it makes me too damn mad, because that’s how [...]
