This might be one of the coolest things I’ve seen in baseball analysis in awhile. Chone Smith — developer of the CHONE projection system and BaseballProjection.com — has put together Wins Above Replacement Data for every player — position players for now, pitchers to be added soon — going back to 1954. This is seriously cool. Want to know how… Read more →
Big thanks to Eric Simon of Mets Blog Amazin’ Avenue for both the inspiration and some spreadsheet help along the way. (Click to large-ify) This stacked colum graph depicts the WAR values for the starting rotations that we looked at last week. I’ve set the replacement-level for starting pitchers to 5.50 runs. All projections are from CHONE with a best-guess… Read more →
A quick post today furthering some of the projections that we looked at yesterday. We’ll be looking at the distribution of wins above replacement for each team’s starting rotation and bullpen. San Francisco Giants The Giants are getting huge chunks of production from Lincecum, Cain, and Johnson. Sanchez isn’t too shabby either, he’s going to add nearly +2 wins to… Read more →
Is about +1.8-2 wins in 2009. In our 2009 team projections we learned that, as of now, the Giants are projected as an 82-83 win team. If Brian Sabean did decide to bring in Manny Ramirez to play left field — note, that I’m not saying he will because I doubt it will happen — then the Giants would probably… Read more →
Projecting the 2009 Giants team with Wins Above Replacement.
Today, I’ll be starting my 2009 Wins Above Replacement projection for the Giants. I’ve done some WAR-related stuff on this website before, but if you’re new to the idea, check out this link. It’s a good place to get started. Also, FanGraphs just posted a two-part article on Win Values. It’s also a very good read and I suggest that… Read more →
You should probably like them a good bit more now: The Royals are closing in on a two-year deal to sign right-hander Kyle Farnsworth as a setup reliever, MLB.com has learned. Also, the Royals announced on Thursday they signed right-hander Doug Waechter as a middle reliever and left-hander Horacio Ramirez as a starter, both to one-year contracts. The Ramirez deal… Read more →
Click to enlarge For a more detailed post on WAR, check out Tom Tango’s excellent blog here. He runs through the idea of Wins Above Replacement and lays out some of the math behind the concept. Big thanks to Colin Wyers for his WAR spreadsheet, making this whole process much, much easier. Things to Remember: ~ Defense is in runs… Read more →
A quick post today on Wins Above Replacement and our starting rotation. Tango has a nice post on how to calculate it and some other concepts associated with WAR. WAR is wins above replacement. Replacement is defined very specifically for my purposes: it’s the talent level for which you would pay the minimum salary on the open market, or for… Read more →