There are some subtleties in the article I might take issue with, but overall I think it does well to highlight how many sabermetricians (including myself) have an understanding of randomness that differs from mainstream, and consequently why many are reluctant to accept some sabermetric principles. And no, sabermetricians (well good ones at least) don't just chalk everything up to randomness without looking for special-cause. It's just that sometimes there's nothing there to see, but many people hate to accept that.

According to FanGraphs, Justin Morneau has already accrued 4.3 WAR in 2010. Aside from being ridiculously high at this point of the season, you might wonder why that is significant. Well when he won the MVP in 2006, Morneau put up the same WAR total (4.3) in 157 games. So in some sense he has already matched his MVP season in just 54 games.

Although many consider UZR the best available defensive metric, many others thinks +/- is deserving of this title. Well it's now on FanGraphs so you can check it out for yourself. A quick note is that +/- is scaled to plays, not runs, so if you want a direct comparison to UZR I think you want to look at the derivation of +/- that is rPM.

Continuing with the them of more sabermetrics in Wikipedia, I created an entry for wOBA. It's just a stub for now, but hopefully we can build it into something decent. Feel free to edit the article, as that's what Wikipedia is all about.

OPS is much better than things like BA and RBI, but that doesn't mean we have to stop there. In a bind where you don't have access to better stats it does a decent job, but at least for MLB there are superior, freely available metrics out there like wOBA or BP's TAv (formerly EqA).

...according to Total Zone. Rally did the hard part in calculating TZ, so I just had to do some accounting on his WAR database.

He has the Pirates winning 73 games.

Not surprisingly, McCutchen was projected to lead the team in wOBA at .363.

They also discuss top 10 prospects.

Here are the hitters, I imagine the pitchers will be coming soon. At a glance I notice Iwamura is still included as a Ray. Not much to be excited about, but I guess that's to be expected.

You can't group by team currently, but a quick glance didn't reveal any particularly noteworthy Pirates. I did notice that Nyjer Morgan is projected to come down quite a bit from his super-human UZR performance in 2009.