So I understand this whole blog thing is supposed to be about commenting on what I'm reading around the net. I'm usually more of a columnist, even here, but there's very interesting stuff floating around. While baseball is shut down, more or less, it gives everyone a chance to work on bigger projects, away from the day to day beautiful grind of a baseball season. I know some guys at BP are working on great things; recently, James Click has done some neat work on defense at BP while David Pinto has also been working the defensive side of the ledger at BaseballMusings.

Now, Avkash Patel (I think that's his name, going from email), is doing some interesting stuff at his blog involving something he's calling attrition rate. It's nothing like Nate Silver's PECOTA attrition and just for clarity's sake, I hope Mr. Patel will change the name to something like "batter workrate" or "Patel number." Definitely worth checking out and discussing. I'm not sure yet what it tells us, but the work definitely gets us asking new and interesting questions

Patel also has a link to a 2001 Malcolm Gladwell piece that is still great reading in the wake of all the recent PED talk.