Comments on: The Duncan Effect http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2009/10/the-duncan-effect/ Economic Thinking about Baseball Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill James 2010 Projections: Hitters : The iYankees Blog http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2009/10/the-duncan-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-106728 Bill James 2010 Projections: Hitters : The iYankees Blog Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:31:42 +0000 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/?p=1949#comment-106728 [...] Assuming the Yankees’ lineup is the same in 2010—unlikely, but for the purpose of this post, let’s consider that it is a distinct possibility—Bill James and Baseball Info Solutions project the following numbers for each player (all figures are featured in The Bill James Handbook 2010, which Greg over at Pending Pinstripes pointed me to). [...] [...] Assuming the Yankees’ lineup is the same in 2010—unlikely, but for the purpose of this post, let’s consider that it is a distinct possibility—Bill James and Baseball Info Solutions project the following numbers for each player (all figures are featured in The Bill James Handbook 2010, which Greg over at Pending Pinstripes pointed me to). [...]

]]> By: Pitchers Hit Eighth http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2009/10/the-duncan-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-106721 Pitchers Hit Eighth Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:21:20 +0000 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/?p=1949#comment-106721 Thanks for the info, JC. So it's quantifiable that all of the talk about Duncan reviving careers and improving everyone else's castoffs is actually true (at least in the instances where the individual pitcher actually improves). :) FWIW, here's the SI article: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1112621/index.htm Thanks for the info, JC.

So it’s quantifiable that all of the talk about Duncan reviving careers and improving everyone else’s castoffs is actually true (at least in the instances where the individual pitcher actually improves). :)

FWIW, here’s the SI article:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1112621/index.htm

]]> By: SMS_Mike http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2009/10/the-duncan-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-106720 SMS_Mike Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:14:07 +0000 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/?p=1949#comment-106720 That's fantastic. We all thought Duncan was an elite pitching coach, and it's nice to see some statistical analysis to back that up. I don't think I still have that issue of SI laying around. Any way you can post a pdf of the article here? That’s fantastic. We all thought Duncan was an elite pitching coach, and it’s nice to see some statistical analysis to back that up.

I don’t think I still have that issue of SI laying around. Any way you can post a pdf of the article here?

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