“Small Sample Size” “It’s early” We hear these phrases thrown around every April and May as a way for fans of last place teams to justify their team’s losses and to detract from the first place team’s wins. But how often does the first 30 games represent the likely outcome at the end of a  Continue Reading »

What is wOBA? wOBA is an offensive stat that seeks to fix some of the flaws in OPS. OPS is a good measure of offense but it has some flaws such as treating a point of on base percentage as equal to a point of slugging, and saying a double is twice as valuable as  Continue Reading »