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2003-12-21 20:23
by Will Carroll

Gammons' latest has more on A-Rod and what's next, more on non-tender moves, and that Vlad may sign before Pudge (though both will end up with Baltimore.)

The bottom of the article is also very interesting stuff. While I've seen several of the systems that teams use, few are worth the effort they put into them. There's better available on the open market and not just the work of Nate Silver, Keith Woolner, and Clay Davenport. Why teams with the intelligence and resources these teams do insist on using fourth or fifth best systems AT BEST is something beyond me. At least ten teams understand one thing - it's about runs, creating them and preventing them. Simple variations on Pythag do pretty well and it doesn't really matter which side of the equation you're on.

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