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Jeff Zimmerman (TucsonRoyal)

Nov 11, 2008 Nov 06, 2009 199 1469

Jeff Zimmerman - Protecting the world from RBI's and Wins from my mom's guest house.

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Royals Review Commented Two comments at RR in 6 months and one of them was that. on Devil's Fingers Gets Major League Call Up on Royals Review - 11/06/09 6:46 PM EST

Beyond the Box Score Commented The on with this Swinging Strike (#4) on A Complete and Lenghty List of Baseball-Related Things Miguel Olivo is Good At on Beyond the Box Score - 11/06/09 6:32 PM EST

Beyond the Box Score Commented What position would that be? on A Complete and Lenghty List of Baseball-Related Things Miguel Olivo is Good At on Beyond the Box Score - 11/06/09 5:40 PM EST

Beyond the Box Score Commented He almost won the yogi Berra Award on A Complete and Lenghty List of Baseball-Related Things Miguel Olivo is Good At on Beyond the Box Score - 11/06/09 5:19 PM EST (1 reply)

Royals Review Posted A Complete and Lenghty List of Baseball-Related Things Miguel Olivo is Good At on Royals Review - 11/06/09 5:07 PM EST

Beyond the Box Score Recommended A Complete and Lenghty List of Baseball-Related Things Miguel Olivo is Good At on Beyond the Box Score - 11/06/09 5:02 PM EST

Driveline Mechanics Commented Congrats and remember the continue with The Process(tm) on Transaction Report: Me on Driveline Mechanics - 11/06/09 1:56 PM EST

Royals Review Posted Devil's Fingers Gets Major League Call Up on Royals Review - 11/06/09 1:53 PM EST

Beyond the Box Score Commented Not exactly sure on the truck evaluation -- maybe someone else can expand. on Umpire Strike Zone Analysis - The Basics and Batter Handedness on Beyond the Box Score - 11/06/09 1:40 PM EST (1 reply)

Royals Review Posted Miguel Olivo Hosed out of Yogi Berra Award on Royals Review - 11/06/09 9:49 AM EST

Beyond the Box Score Posted Which Side Won When Bobby Abreu Re-signed for $19 Million with the Angels? on Beyond the Box Score - 11/05/09 11:54 PM EST

Beyond the Box Score Commented I know it can be done with R, but not with just SQL. on Umpire Strike Zone Analysis - The Basics and Batter Handedness on Beyond the Box Score - 11/05/09 10:35 PM EST (2 replies)

Beyond the Box Score Commented Viva --- did you not get the 18 emails I sent out over the last few days. on Baseball on a Budget -- Final Results for the Pat Burrell League on Beyond the Box Score - 11/05/09 4:14 PM EST (1 reply)

Beyond the Box Score Commented The play this game everytime they make a transaction. on The Mistake Lottery on Beyond the Box Score - 11/05/09 3:02 PM EST

Beyond the Box Score Posted Umpire Strike Zone Analysis - The Basics and Batter Handedness on Beyond the Box Score - 11/05/09 2:51 PM EST

Beyond the Box Score Posted Baseball on a Budget -- Final Results for the Pat Burrell League on Beyond the Box Score - 11/05/09 2:47 PM EST

Royals Review Commented Beyond the Boxscore report up also: on Royals trade Mark Teahen to White Sox for Chris Getz & Josh Fields on Royals Review - 11/05/09 11:27 AM EST

Royals Review Commented The fans don't like him much either on Royals trade Mark Teahen to the White Sox for 2B Chris Getz and 3B Josh Fields on Royals Review - 11/05/09 11:14 AM EST

Royals Review Recommended This whole roster on Royals Review - 11/05/09 10:48 AM EST

Royals Review Commented We got something. That was better than I thought. Decent move. on Royals trade Mark Teahen to White Sox for Chris Getz & Josh Fields on Royals Review - 11/05/09 10:44 AM EST

Beyond the Box Score Posted Image FanShot on Beyond the Box Score - 11/05/09 9:01 AM EST

Beyond the Box Score Recommended Speed Check - AFL vs. MLB on Beyond the Box Score - 11/05/09 8:58 AM EST

Beyond the Box Score Commented 34 is the age when most established pitchers are done on Andy Pettitte vs. Pedro Martinez: WAR by Age on Beyond the Box Score - 11/04/09 8:03 PM EST (1 reply)

Beyond the Box Score Commented The person was MGL at the book Blog on Negative Team WAR - 2009 Edition on Beyond the Box Score - 11/04/09 12:52 AM EST (1 reply)

Beyond the Box Score Commented Torn ACL is not that common and I removed pitchers. on Rays hand Pirates some free wins (because they had to) on Beyond the Box Score - 11/03/09 11:35 PM EST

Beyond the Box Score Commented If I was the Pirates I might be worried of the effects of ACL on Rays hand Pirates some free wins (because they had to) on Beyond the Box Score - 11/03/09 10:35 PM EST (1 reply)

Royals Review Commented I heard from a birdie that FanGraphs might be going heavy with their anti-Royal campaign soon. on Rays Send Aki Iwamura to Pirates for Random Prospect on Royals Review - 11/03/09 10:16 PM EST (3 replies)

BCS Evolution Voted for 8 team MWC-like design on BCS Evolution - 11/03/09 5:32 PM EST

Royals Review Commented I would consider it. on Royals Links: Is a Zack Greinke Cy Young Imminent? on Royals Review - 11/03/09 12:32 PM EST

Beyond the Box Score Commented I took the leaders list and then selected only the players with negative WAR. It was a quicker method than downloading the data for 30 teams. on Negative Team WAR - 2009 Edition on Beyond the Box Score - 11/03/09 11:10 AM EST

Beyond the Box Score Commented More of the problem is the line from the DH position: .209/.281/.374 on Negative Team WAR - 2009 Edition on Beyond the Box Score - 11/03/09 9:10 AM EST (1 reply)

Royals Review Commented On JoPo's small towns on Royals Links: Is a Zack Greinke Cy Young Imminent? on Royals Review - 11/03/09 1:01 AM EST

Beyond the Box Score Posted Negative Team WAR - 2009 Edition on Beyond the Box Score - 11/03/09 12:32 AM EST

Driveline Mechanics Posted All in all, Sabathia’s motion is not only efficient, but well-adapted, using his long arms, a... on Driveline Mechanics - 11/02/09 9:38 AM EST

Minor League Ball Voted for San Diego Padres on Minor League Ball - 11/01/09 4:15 PM EST

Royals Review Commented I didn't see the 3 year deal part --- hell no on that. on Offseason time on Royals Review - 11/01/09 10:26 AM EST (1 reply)

Royals Review Commented Heck the are full of MLB All-Stars like our own Ken Harvey on A couple of minor transactions on Royals Review - 10/31/09 9:58 PM EDT

Royals Review Commented I would love to pick up Penny cheap. on Offseason time on Royals Review - 10/31/09 9:32 PM EDT (2 replies)

Royals Review Voted for The Phillies - because I hate the Yankees. on Royals Review - 10/31/09 9:16 PM EDT

Royals Review Commented More ex-Royals on the Phillies on World Series Poll on Royals Review - 10/31/09 7:07 PM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Voted for Getting Albert Pujols and Zack Greinke for a couple AAA guys. on Beyond the Box Score - 10/31/09 10:55 AM EDT

Royals Review Commented The weekend games skew results that they have to be taken into account on Royals Attendance Analysis on Royals Review - 10/30/09 11:56 AM EDT (1 reply)

Royals Review Commented Between David Appleman and him, they make what everyone does seem meaningless. on Royals Top 60 Prospects: #46-38 on Royals Review - 10/30/09 11:41 AM EDT

Royals Review Commented I have had the same problem on the amount of code at BtB with cut and pasting tables. on Royals Top 60 Prospects: #46-38 on Royals Review - 10/30/09 11:39 AM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented Maybe the Royal's could pick him up to manage. on LB Keith Bulluck uses a sabermetric analogy to explain the Titans' quarterback situation. on Beyond the Box Score - 10/30/09 11:01 AM EDT

Royals Review Commented I love how the data from baseball reference looks. on Royals Top 60 Prospects: #46-38 on Royals Review - 10/30/09 10:56 AM EDT (1 reply)

Royals Review Commented I think he will regress some, but trading him off is dumb, especially in the winter on The Atlanta Braves will likely try to unload Javier Vazquez this winter for a quality bat. What... on Royals Review - 10/30/09 2:20 AM EDT (1 reply)

Driveline Mechanics Commented For the 2009 season I found that 1.66*OBP +SLG is closer to wOBA. on World Series Batting Order Optimizer: New York Yankees on Driveline Mechanics - 10/29/09 1:41 AM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Voted for 1 WAR on Beyond the Box Score - 10/29/09 1:37 AM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented But WAR for pitchers does measue innings on Ricky Nolasco: 4 WAR or 1 WAR? on Beyond the Box Score - 10/28/09 8:35 PM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented Innings Pitched and PA will both be factored into WAR. on Ricky Nolasco: 4 WAR or 1 WAR? on Beyond the Box Score - 10/28/09 6:24 PM EDT (1 reply)

Beyond the Box Score Commented WAR is not a predictive stat on Ricky Nolasco: 4 WAR or 1 WAR? on Beyond the Box Score - 10/28/09 5:50 PM EDT (2 replies)

Beyond the Box Score Posted "Mars is in Leo, A-Rod is a Leo. It's a supercharged time for him." on Beyond the Box Score - 10/28/09 11:54 AM EDT

Royals Review Posted Fangraphs Looks at Billy Butler's Improvement on Royals Review - 10/28/09 11:50 AM EDT

Royals Review Recommended I would do that just to get rid of La Russa on Royals Review - 10/27/09 2:09 AM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented Here is a nice attempt by the blog, Vegas Watch on starting with the Vegas line winning % and then going with an adjusted WPA on Daily Box Score 10/26: Guess Again on Beyond the Box Score - 10/27/09 2:03 AM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented To get the Pitcher/Team/Batter/ Year on 2007-2009 Pitch F/X Download Available (.sql) on Beyond the Box Score - 10/27/09 1:59 AM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented on 2007-2009 Pitch F/X Download Available (.sql) on Beyond the Box Score - 10/27/09 12:40 AM EDT (1 reply)

Royals Review Commented Actually, need to play Pac - 10 style with real round robin of 9 conference on OT: Iowa State - 9 Nebraska - 7 in Lincoln... on Royals Review - 10/26/09 2:08 PM EDT (2 replies)

Beyond the Box Score Posted 2007-2009 Pitch F/X Download Available (.sql) on Beyond the Box Score - 10/26/09 11:33 AM EDT

Royals Review Commented I actually think it is really funny, even though I don't follow K-State as closely since graduating and moving to Tucson on OT: Iowa State - 9 Nebraska - 7 in Lincoln... on Royals Review - 10/25/09 7:33 PM EDT (1 reply)

Royals Review Commented BTW, who is in first place in the Big 12 North? on OT: Iowa State - 9 Nebraska - 7 in Lincoln... on Royals Review - 10/25/09 4:25 PM EDT (1 reply)

Royals Review Commented Nice to see you Nick on Royal's Strike Zone Judgement on Royals Review - 10/24/09 12:45 AM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented So my goal is eventually determine what chance a certain pitcher gives a team to win a game. I went the SD route and there were too many holes on A.J. Burnett, Career: 54.6 average game score, 17.2 standard deviation Andy Pettitte, Career:... on Beyond the Box Score - 10/23/09 1:13 PM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented I used SD for consistency, but a couple horrible games could ruin a rather good season worth of data. on A.J. Burnett, Career: 54.6 average game score, 17.2 standard deviation Andy Pettitte, Career:... on Beyond the Box Score - 10/23/09 12:27 PM EDT (1 reply)

Beyond the Box Score Commented I actually think there is some merit to consistency, but Standard Deviation is not the way to look at it. on A.J. Burnett, Career: 54.6 average game score, 17.2 standard deviation Andy Pettitte, Career:... on Beyond the Box Score - 10/23/09 11:00 AM EDT (2 replies)

Beyond the Box Score Commented Actually, MGL would be more vocal. on Which tells us more: The last 7 at bats or 7 at bats against this pitcher? on Beyond the Box Score - 10/22/09 9:22 PM EDT

Royals Review Commented Average team salary explains some of the difference: on ‘AL is vastly superior to NL’ argument doesn’t make sense to me (Casey Casem, set me straight) on Royals Review - 10/22/09 4:16 PM EDT (1 reply)

Driveline Mechanics Commented I see Bay turning into a Jose Guillen on Jason Bay vs. Matt Holliday, Bill James vs. devil_fingers: Free Agent Projection Showdown on Driveline Mechanics - 10/22/09 10:39 AM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented Any Cardinal's fan should read "3 Nights in August". on Which tells us more: The last 7 at bats or 7 at bats against this pitcher? on Beyond the Box Score - 10/22/09 10:13 AM EDT (2 replies)

Royals Review Commented I agree on 2010 Starters/Relievers: Surprise, Surprise - not much changes on Royals Review - 10/21/09 4:27 PM EDT (1 reply)

Beyond the Box Score Commented Great Stuff on Which tells us more: The last 7 at bats or 7 at bats against this pitcher? on Beyond the Box Score - 10/21/09 4:12 PM EDT (1 reply)

Beyond the Box Score Recommended Which tells us more: The last 7 at bats or 7 at bats against this pitcher? on Beyond the Box Score - 10/21/09 4:06 PM EDT

Royals Review Commented Aviles at 2nd or SS would help. The problem is that Yuni and Bert would have to play and are horrible on 2010 Starters/Relievers: Surprise, Surprise - not much changes on Royals Review - 10/21/09 3:37 PM EDT (1 reply)

Minor League Ball Voted for San Francisco Giants on Minor League Ball - 10/21/09 3:18 PM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented Where's Ed Walsh or Gaylord Perry when we need them. on Using Pitch F/X Data to Determine if Mariano Rivera Threw a Spitball on Beyond the Box Score - 10/21/09 3:32 AM EDT

Royals Review Commented What part of Gordon's numbers scare you? on Royal's Strike Zone Judgement on Royals Review - 10/20/09 10:50 PM EDT (1 reply)

Beyond the Box Score Commented If you read the link above (change the spin and direction of the ball), there is the slip finger method. on Using Pitch F/X Data to Determine if Mariano Rivera Threw a Spitball on Beyond the Box Score - 10/20/09 9:07 PM EDT

Beyond the Box Score Commented Actually if he threw all spitballs, the ball rotations and break would be significantly different for each pitch on Using Pitch F/X Data to Determine if Mariano Rivera Threw a Spitball on Beyond the Box Score - 10/20/09 5:21 PM EDT (1 reply)

Royals Review Commented Truthfully not really, but I was making sure all the %'s add up. on Royal's Strike Zone Judgement on Royals Review - 10/20/09 4:38 PM EDT (1 reply)

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