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Sold on Sale: Streak of Success

June 20, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Adam Gilfix There has been a ton of buzz surrounding the Chicago White Sox lefty sensation Chris “The Condor” Sale recently, and for good reason too.  Last night he tossed eight 2-hit, 0-walk shutout innings...

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Talking Balk: All Walk-Off Balks in MLB History

June 19, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Adam Gilfix This article details the phenomenon of the walk-off balk, updated most recently in July 2016 after the Padres walk-off balk. The original version of this post was about how on June 18, 2015, the Los Angeles Dodgers...

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Red Sox Achieve One of Rarest Feats in MLB History

June 17, 2015
by harvardsports
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By Adam Gilfix Late last night after marveling about the incredible NBA Finals, I tweeted a seemingly random baseball question about 3 teammates each hitting a double and triple in the same game, and thought that I could probably...

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Have MLB’s Efforts to Preserve Competitive Balance Done Enough?

February 13, 2015
by harvardsports
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by Evan Zepfel Since the advent of free agency in 1975, certain Major League Baseball teams have benefited from the ability to acquire talented players through free agency.  This system, however, rewards the teams with the...

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Smart Slugging: Evaluating the Power-Strikeouts Tradeoff

September 22, 2014
by harvardsports
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By Kurt Bullard In baseball, it is taken as a given that players who hit for power tend to strike out at a higher rate than those who make their living off simply reaching base. A common metric used in portraying this phenomenon...

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MLB Playoff Home-Field Advantage Is Tinier Than David Eckstein

October 21, 2010
by harvardsports
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By David Roher These playoffs have been one for the road. In the Division Series, the home team went a combined 4-11, including a 1-7 showing in the ALDS. Why this happened isn’t that important — you can come up with...

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Should MLB Realign Its Divisions?

March 29, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Ben Blatt Some people believe that baseball faces a serious parity problem. While most would acknowledge that the root of the problem is in unequal payrolls, the position of many owners and the player’s union makes it...

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Where Every Team Is Above Average: Home-Field Advantage and its Effects on Revenue

March 7, 2010
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Had an incredible time at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference yesterday. I got to tell so many people how long I’d been reading their books and blogs, or how important they were to my becoming interested in...

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The Comfort Zone, Part 1

February 18, 2010
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Pitchers and catchers! I don’t need much of an excuse to start talking about baseball, but I probably need one to assume that people might listen. So I’m taking the opportunity presented on Wednesday by...

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The Media, Mark McGwire, and Chew

January 12, 2010
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Mark McGwire may have taken steroids, but he didn’t get the mileage out of them that Mike Lupica has. Lupica benefited from the 1998 home run chase, publishing a book about it a few months after its...

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