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"The Tampa Bay Rays now employ James Click and Chaim Bloom, who got their start at Baseball Prospectus, along with former FanGraphs writer Peter Bendix and Pitch F/x guru Josh Kalk."

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Peter Gammons said Washington Nats manager Manny Acta “has been known to lay an occasional VORP on you.” Also Ken Macha is teaching the Brewers about the Fielding Bible.

by atlantaray on Apr 3, 2009 11:17 PM EDT reply actions  

Also from in a chat with Pirates GM Neil Hungtington
The Pirates upper management has widely ignored OBP (on base percentage) in the past. How important will OBP be in player evaluation under your leadership?
— Eric S., Pennsboro, W.Va
We are going to utilize several objective measures of player performance to evaluate and develop players. We’ll rely on the more traditional objective evaluations: OPS (on base percentage plus slugging percentage) , WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched), Runs Created, ERC (Component ERA), GB/FB (ground ball to fly ball ratio), K/9 (strikeouts per nine innings), K/BB (strikeouts to walks ratio), BB%, etc., but we’ll also look to rely on some of the more recent variations: VORP (value over replacement player), Relative Performance, EqAve (equivalent average), EqOBP (equivalent on base percentage), EqSLG (equivalent slugging percentage), BIP% (balls put into play percentage), wOBA (weighted on base average), Range Factor, PMR (probabilistic model of range) and Zone Rating.

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by vivaelpujols on Apr 4, 2009 4:49 PM EDT reply actions  

I don't see why wh en he mentions using VORP

(winky face)

Bringing you more-or-less replacement level analysis and commentary to Driveline Mechanics and elsewhere since sometime in 2008.

by Matt Klaassen on Apr 6, 2009 1:46 AM EDT up reply actions  

VORP+Range Factor = best total value stat ever

Bringing you more-or-less replacement level analysis and commentary to Driveline Mechanics and elsewhere since sometime in 2008.

by Matt Klaassen on Apr 6, 2009 1:47 AM EDT up reply actions  

They hated Moneyball at first

But now they’re all-of-sudden members of the Bill James fan club. Amazing what a bad economy will do.

by atlantaray on Apr 5, 2009 2:41 PM EDT reply actions  

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