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they put in $520M, and got out $570M. what that misses, of course, if how much money they thought they had. if i buy $10 of stock, and it goes up to $100, well, i've made $90. and if it goes back down to $15... have i lost $85, or gained $5?

according to an analysis posted by amazin' avenue, (link), citifield does not necessarily kill home runs, especially not as much as was feared, and in fact, 5.7% more homers were hit at citi than on the road. granted, its only one year...

yeah, i think i'd be rooting for the phillies to come out on top... NL East uber alles!

you were saying...

that's a good point. i guess the counter argument is that it took the AL a while to figure out collectively how to best take advantage of that extra hitter spot in terms of building a team. of course, i then went ahead and looked at the data behind my one argument. and, while i admit it's kindof flawed, it is still rather interesting... i looked at what AL pitchers do versus NL pitchers, and at what AL DH's do versus NL DH's. AL pitchers turned in the following line over 278 at bats in 544 games played: 0.094 / 0.125 / 0.129 A/O*/S 22 singles, 4 doubles, 2 homers, 10 walks, 20 runs scored, and 12 runs driven in, with 125 strikeouts NL pitchers turned in teh following line, 0.138 / 0.176 / 0.177 A/O*/S which scaled down to 278 at bats gives us: 31 singles, 6 doubles, 1 homer, 13 walks, 16 runs scored, 15 runs driven in, with 108 strikeouts. for NL DH's, we get the following line in 438 at bats, 0.283 / 0.360 / 0.473 A/O*/S 79 singles, 26 doubles, 19 homers, 53 walks, 54 runs scored, 64 runs driven in, with 89 strikeouts. for AL DH's, we get the following line: 0.256 / 0.335 / 0.444 A/O*/S which scaled down to 438 at bats gives us: 70 singles, 22 doubles, 1 triple, 20 homers, 52 walks, 62 runs scored, 67 runs driven in, with 99 strikeouts. so... i guess... the NL should be getting the distinct advantage here. what the hell was i talking about?! though, the effect of the DH on an NL team is often that a superior offensive player "gets the day off" and plays DH, whereas a lesser offensive player takes his place. so maybe that's the difference. don't even begin to think that i'm about to tackle the answer to that question though! *i treat OBP as (H+BB)/(AB+BB) realizing that there's more that goes into the calculation. its just that those data are typically not on the first page of stats that one finds on web sites, and its not worth finding the SF's and SH's etc that factor into the rest of the equation. their influence is far smaller than hits, walks, and at bats.

the DH is responsible, to my thinking. when an NL and an AL team play each other, and the DH rule is in effect, the AL's DH has a distinct advantage over the NL's DH. an AL DH is typically a better hitter than the 8th best fielder, whereas the NL's DH is typically the first guy off the bench. without the DH, i guess the NL's pitchers are more accostomed to batting, somewhat, but i don't htink that's much of an increase in ability that we're talking about. i do wonder, having said that... what is the NL's winning percentage in home IL games versus away IL games, and how does that compare to the typically observed homefield advantage? i also wonder what the batting averages of NL pitchers looks like as a whole as compared to that of hte AL pitchers.

i'm hoping for seven ugly, embarrassing games that neither team nor fan can hold their head up high about winning.

"There are other baseball fans in other cities, of course, Mets fans in this one. There are fans who come out strong for teams who haven't won the way the Yankees won, who don't make the playoffs just about every year the way the Yankees have since Joe Torre first came to town 13 years ago and the winning came back to the Yankees and the Bronx." so, yeah, they're great fans and all. but they're only there 'cos the team is winning. that's my takeaway from the article. the rest was nonsense that can be said of the fans of any team, really. oh, one guy didnt want to look at what was left of ysii - the poor thing - instead preferring to remember it as it was (a 70's remodel, ha!). but, y'know, what better way to make yankee fans like you than to tell them, to reassure them, how great they must be because they root for the yankees. because if they didnt need the yankees to make them feel great, well, they'd be mets fans.

yankee fans are not the best in the world. they throw the ball back, too.

well. fuck.

god, what a cheap ass wall...

if you're giving jack wilson 8 mil for that first year, how are you convincing matt holliday that he's worth only 9 million?

god, i am so over the mets right now. well, ok. that's not entirely true. i only wish i could be over the mets...

101 teams. couldn't come up with green bay... ugh! got all of mlb.

18/25, missed #2, even. his was the name most waiting on the tip of my tongue...

the pitcher who received votes in the highest percentage of games played is: tobi stoner, billy wagner, & casey fossum 100% johan santana 96% francisco rodriguez 89% fernando nieve 88% pedro feliciano 84% the pitcher who received the votes in the highest percentage of innings pitched* is: tobi stoner, billy wagner, & casey fossum 100% johan santana 97% fernando nieve 88% oliver perez 87% francisco rodriguez 87% the pitcher with the highest number of schaeffer points per game-voted is: johan santana 3.53 PPGV livan hernandez 2.88 PPGV john maine 2.65 PPGV mike pelfrey 2.35 PPGV fernando nieve 2.32 PPGV the pitcher with the highest number of schaeffer points per IP-voted* is: pedro feliciano 0.85 PPIPV billy wagner 0.83 PPIPV ken takahashi 0.81 PPIPV sean green 0.69 PPIPV brian stokes 0.69 PPIPV the pitcher with the highest number of schaeffer points per game played is: johan santana 3.38 PPG fernando nieve 2.03 PPG livan hernandez 2.00 PPG john maine 1.94 PPG mike pelfrey 1.90 PPG and finally, the pitcher with the highest number of schaeffer points per inning pitched is: billy wagner 0.83 PPIP francisco rodriguez 0.57 PPIP ken takahashi 0.56 PPIP pedro feliciano 0.55 PPIP johan santana 0.51 PPIP thank you, and don't forget to tip your waiters. i hope you find this somewhat interesting. i think i did. *the total number of innings pitched in games a player received votes is somewhat inaccurate because in grimm's data, a third of an IP is recorded a 0.1, rther than 0.33. it shouldn't affect things too much...

so i don't have time to post this neatly and in a huge table, but the results of my quickie tabulations are as follows: the player who received votes in the highest percentage of games played is: carlos beltran 82% carlos delgado 81% jose reyes 78% david wright 76% ramon martinez 75% i also looked at plate appearances in games voted on, versus total plate appearances, to account for playing time. the player who received the votes in the highest percentage of plate appearances is: carlos delgado 85% carlos beltran 84% jose reyes 81% ramon martinez 77% david wright 77% the player with the highest number of schaeffer points per game-voted is: carlos delgado 0.99 PPGV jeff francoeur 0.92 PPGV angel pagan 0.90 PPGV josh thole 0.89 PPGV carlos beltran 0.87 PPGV the player with the highest number of schaeffer points per PA-voted is: ramon castro 0.40 fernando tatis 0.24 cory sullivan 0.23 jeff francoeur 0.22 carlos delgado 0.22 the player with the highest number of schaeffer points per game played is: carlos delgado 0.80 carlos beltran 0.71 jeff francoeur 0.68 david wright 0.64 angel pagan 0.62 and finally, for the hitters, the player with the highest number of schaeffer points per plate appearance is: carlos delgado 0.19 josh thole 0.17 jeff francoeur 0.17 carlos beltran 0.16 cory sullivan 0.15 thank you. pitchers will be next!

awww.... damnit!

do you have any stats on voters? that would be cool to see... who gave out the most sixes, who gave out the fewest who voted the most, who did the fewest who spreads their votes the thinnest, who the thickest inquiring, pesky minds want to know. well, they don't want it too much, really. just enough to suggest it.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: i'd love to see points per game, points per sip, and games per sip (or would that be the other way around?) stats. Check this out then: http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/rawdata.php?year=2009 curse you and your giving me something to waste my friday with!