Sabermetrics

There are countless things that go into sabermetrics that the average fan wouldn't understand or know about that's why every MLB team has a sabermetrician the more money the team has the better the sabermetrician and that why the playing field isn't fair and that is one of the problems with baseball…

One of these examples is Bill James, generally considered the father of sabermetrics, whose ideas were dismissed for years before earning the respect they deserved. When James published his first Baseball Abstract in 1977, he only sold 75 copies, but as Lewis puts it in the book “[i]t didn’t occur to him to be disappointed by a…

Theo Epstein the 43 year old native of New York City and Yale University graduate last season helped a MLB organization win its first championship since 1908. The Chicago Cubs won its first World series in more than 100 years with the 14th overall Payroll in the MLB. Many experts around Major League Baseball say he's the best GM of all time yet he wasn't even the Cubs GM this season he is the President of Baseball operations. With that being said this essay will be to discuss why Theo Epstein…

Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.” We have all been guilty at some point, trapped in the web of the norm. Insanity occurs in the mind and change brings challenge, but what happens when you go against what others think or do? When you challenge the way it has always been done? The war of the mind then begins to consume your thoughts with negativity. What will other’s think of me? What if I fail? What if I am wrong? What…

struggle of the Oakland Athletics, a major baseball team. The Oakland A’s overcome some seemingly impossible obstacles with the help of their general manager, Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), by applying a new innovative statistical analysis, known as sabermetrics. Sabermetrics is the empirical analysis of baseball, or the use of statistical analysis to question the traditional measures of baseball (Birnbaum). The underlying theme of this movie is to outline basic economic principles, with the…

Beane was speaking with the Cleveland Indian’s GM about potentially swapping baseball players, Peter Brand quickly differentiated between good deals and bad by utilizing the principles of knowledge management and sabermetrics. In order to analyze baseball records, sabermetrics helps predict future performance variables by utilizing mathematics and statistical analysis to convert previously acquired data and information into knowledge and wisdom (Albert, 1997). Mr. Beane demonstrated many…

In Figure 1 we can see a snapshot as of June 29th 2016 of the top major league starting pitchers by ERA. While this only shows basic statistics and is sort-able via any method listed in the columns, you can easily see how these numbers could be gathered, analyzed, and tabulated in a way that could quantify that the performance based on any number of different algorithms depending on what values you were looking for. For example, if someone were interested in who the most durable pitcher is…

Baseball is a game of extreme statistics, especially in the MLB. Sabermetrics is becoming a very popular cultural term for average Americans. After the release of Moneyball a film that showed the importance of statistical analysis in baseball, the culture was hooked on Sabermetrics. This project will analyze earned run average (ERA) and some of the variables that play a pertinent role in determining a great ERA. ERA is the most popular metric used to decide whether a pitcher is deemed great,…

Introduction Money rules in Major League Baseball. The more money a team has, the more likely they are to do better during their season. That is why teams such as the Dodgers, Yankees, and Giants don’t have much difficulty building a strong team. With such a high salary cap, they have the ability to sign the best players. With better players, that leads to better development as well as an easier way to attract better free agents. Due to that, very rarely do teams with low salary caps like the…

Minnesota Twins From: Minyue Wu Date: November/19/2016 Re: The Sabermetrics Approach and the rebuilding of the Twins ____________________________________ Introduction After Chicago Cubs winning the World Series for the first time in 108 years, people have witnessed Epstein succeed in his team building strategies for the second time, while the first time is when he brought the first success in 103 years’ period to Boston Red Sox. The “sabermetrics” approach of Epstein is effective in building…