Brett Gardner’s value

By On January 20, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Business of Baseball, Roster Decisions

Finally the most exciting part of the offseason, salary arbitration, has arrived.  Teams and agents get to place values on cost-controlled players too young to get free agency, and if they can’t reach an agreement, submit their offers to an objective panel of arbitrators.  The Yankees recently have reached agreements with several of their important [...]

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Playing Around with Comps

By On January 20, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Statistical Analysis

A couple of days ago I decided to put my thoughts regarding the Michael Pineda for Jesus Montero deal down on paper and I got a lot of excellent feedback in the comment section. Originally I had no intention to do a follow-up post but an interesting exchange with a commenter, , left [...]

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Who is Gerardo Concepcion?

By On January 20, 2012 · 11 Comments · In Player Analysis

So you’ve heard of Yoennis Cespedes, and you’ve heard of Jorge Soler, but have you heard of Gerardo Conception? He is the latest Cuban player to hit the hot stove news circuit after emerging as a free agent on Wednesday. Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes Los Angeles reported that the left-handed pitcher [...]

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More on Kuroda

By On January 20, 2012 · 1 Comment · In PitchFX, Player Analysis

What you see there is a fairly simple chart. That’s the overlay of Hirkoki Kuroda’s performance at Dodger Stadium onto Yankee Stadium III. The dark blue dots are home runs. The light blue dots are doubles. The orange dots are fly outs.

Though is a ground ball pitcher, we [...]

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