Posts Tagged ‘jason schmidt’

Colletti and “moneyball” in the same headline…NOT an April Fools joke

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

While perusing Buster Olney’s links today, I was immediately drawn to this one from the Los Angeles Daily News:

Dodgers GM Colletti plays own version of moneyball by Ramona Shelburne

…But after what he’s done for the Dodgers this offseason, just imagine what general manager Ned Colletti could do with a couple days in Washington in a room with Congressional lawmakers who have been dickering, rather fruitlessly, over the federal budget and bank bailout packages.

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WARP value continued…

Friday, March 13th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

After I addressed the price that several of MLB’s top players were paid for each WARP (win above replacement player) that they contributed, Prof. Nerdtron posed the question of which teams did the best job finding value through free agency. I tried to at least begin answering this question by looking at the entire free agent class of 2006/7 and 2007/8. So which teams have done the best job over the past two years?

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