Establishing A Mendoza Line For OBP
Also, he had such fantastic style. Why not have one? OBP won’t tell you everything, but I basically use it instead of average, so I’d like to have a really bottom level benchmark. It’s tempting to...
View ArticlePicking A Reds Scapegoat: 2013 Edition
Baaah. Well, after five games the Reds are 3-2. That’s a .600 winning record, which comes out to about 97 wins on the season. Even if we lost tomorrow – that’s going .500 in half of our games against...
View ArticleLooking For Bright Spots While Losing To The Stupid Cardinals
Photo by Keith Allison/Flickr Incidentally, I still hate the Cardinals, of course, but at this point it’s pretty much for the fun of it. Tony LaRussa is gone. Chris Carpenter is (sorta?) gone. Other...
View ArticleIT IS TIME TO PANIC, THE REDS ARE DOOMED
It may be early in the season, but I think it might be true. After opening the season with a great 5-2 record, we’ve now dropped four in a row. If we extrapolate these four games through the rest of...
View ArticleAnd The Sad Reds Get Sadder
Yuuuuuuuup. Let me dig around and find my sad clown picture. Ah. Here it is: It’s a very sad clown. Yesterday was a pretty emo day for Reds fan, and today did not get much of a mood lift. Sure, things...
View ArticleBat Mike Leake 3rd! Reds Win 11-2, After Winning 1-0
(Photo by Keith Allison/Flickr) Definitely a nice change of pace from our recent troubles, all around. First of all, we won (twice), which is great. Second, we swept the Phillies, which is pretty...
View Article2012 Season Hitter Similarity Index – Because Why Not?
Or “How I Broke Google Docs” He truly is the incomparable Joey Votto. (Photo by Geoff Livingston on Flickr) I was actually playing around with a bunch of different kinds of ‘similarity scores’ (sort of...
View ArticleThe Pierre-Dunn Continuum – Hitter Similarity Index Part 2
This is a continuation, kind of, of the 2012 Hitter Similarity Index post previous to this. Either scroll down or click here if you want to read that. If you don’t want to read the other post, just...
View ArticleThe Crazy Thing Is, The Reds Are Doing Ok
The C-ing Red Puppy is really into the Giro d’Italia right now and has not even been watching the Reds. BAD DOG. So, it’s been awhile since I’ve blogged about the Reds. In related news, moving sucks....
View ArticleTrivial Moments in Reds History: Hitting For The Uni-Cycle
This. (Photo by Paul Miles) So, I’m back. With some very important, useful baseball analysis, because that is totally my thing. Hanny-way, I was watching the game tonight as Ryan Hanigan (see what I...
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