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Subjectivity Objectified: Measuring MLB Fans’ Biases With All-Star Votes
July 19, 2010
It doesn’t take a hardcore sabermetrician to realize that the All-Star vote is a sham. After all, the best catcher in the game (Miguel Olivo) received only the 11th-most votes ...B/R Poll: Robinson Cano, Miguel Cabrera Lead in Staggeringly Close AL MVP Race
June 30, 2010
Tomorrow, we turn our calendars to July. The start of the seventh Gregorian month isn't the precise midway point of the MLB season, but it's a symbolic transition, one that ...28 Days Later: Why Derek Jeter’s 2010 Stats Still Don’t Make Sense
June 2, 2010
About a month ago, I wrote an unintentionally controversial article about some puzzling patterns in Derek Jeter’s early season numbers. There were two main contradictions within his statistics: that he was ...Jeter, Jeter, Numbers Beater: Why Derek’s 2010 Stats Make No Sense
May 5, 2010
There’s something quite odd about Derek Jeter. I don’t mean the fact that he’s seemingly ageless, or that he’s actually a somewhat-likeable guy despite being the captain of the most evil ...The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees: The Real Difference Between Them
February 11, 2010
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve had trouble expressing myself. While most fans outside New York consider the Yankees’ 2009 World Series win the purely the result of a predatory payroll, ...Dear John: Lackey Signing Is Betrayal To Red Sox Nation
December 16, 2009
“How are the Red Sox any better than the Yankees?” It’s a question I hear often when I walk the streets of Cleveland dressed in Boston paraphernalia. Most of my fellow ...