My previous column on reaching-base-via-error rates for batters generated the most responses yet in the short life of this column, which I think warrants a follow-up column responding to some of the reader mail on the topic. By far the most common point made by readers was that I neglected to consider handedness when I…
There’s a segment of informed, intelligent baseball fans who would prefer that performance analysts spend less time criticizing the management of MLB teams. The notion that "they may know things we don’t" is popular in some circles, and is used as a defense for decisions that we, as informed outsiders, find bizarre or even infuriating….