SB Nation User Blog: Vatinius

Ever since Geoff Baker's story about someone (presumably Silva) wanting to knock Ichiro out, I've...

Vatinius — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:35:00 -0000

Ever since Geoff Baker's story about someone (presumably Silva) wanting to knock Ichiro out, I've wondered what that would look like. Thankfully, this super secret surveillance photo from two days before the team meeting finally shows us exactly what happened.

And lo did he say unto the people, "Thou shalt not lob thine routine ground balls over thine own...

Vatinius — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:35:15 -0000

And lo did he say unto the people, "Thou shalt not lob thine routine ground balls over thine own dugout. No matter how distracting yonder cotton candy vendor is."

And lo, did the Good Lord Beltre frown upon the poor defense and verily smote his enemies into charred ash, in his mercy.

Sabermetrics books/games

Vatinius — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:36:23 -0000

So I've been lurking around here for about a year but I've never really felt the need post anything. Now though, I'm looking to buy my dad either a good Sabermetrics book or a stat heavy baseball sim for christmas this year and I was wondering if any of you stat-addicts knew some good ones?

I was thinking of The Book by Tom Tango or Out of the Park Baseball 9. If you guys have any better recomendations I'd appreciate it.

Also, while I'm here...

When you park adjust tRA, is it only adjusted based on pitchers' home stadium and the assumption that half their games will be there, or is it adjusted based on where a pitcher actually pitched his innings?

So (hypothetically) if Carlos Silva, by some statistical fluke, managed to do 120 innings of his suckage in hitter friendly parks and only 33.3 in pitcher friendly parks, would tRA account for that and produce a slightly lower number, or would it in fact produce a slightly higher number becuase of his home park being pitcher friendly?

And while we're on the topic, who do you think would win in a hot dog eating contest, Carlos Silva or a Velociraptor?