30 Oct
With the season over, I’d had to introduce a lot of series that would be of interest to fans as we move into the offseason. With my other writing workload, it’s become fairly difficult to sit in one day and write something Marlins related off the top of my head. So I decided what I’ll [...]
Posted in Marlins, Media by: Michael Jong
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29 Oct
Welcome back to Revisiting ‘03, a sabermetric look at the amazing 2003 Florida Marlins team that won the World Series. As you can tell from the title, we have but one target for today’s piece, and that man is the D-Train, former Marlins lefty starter Dontrelle Willis. Let’s take a look at that 2003 season [...]
Posted in Marlins, Player Profile, Revisiting '03 by: Michael Jong
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28 Oct
I thought it would be an interesting exercise to calculate WAR for each Marlins player on my own and see how the results turned out. It was mostly a practice for me for future attempts at determining stuff like MVP awards for the BBA. On a whim, I decided to start with pitcher WAR, since [...]
Posted in Analysis, Marlins by: Michael Jong
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28 Oct
Not much going on in the world of baseball today, you know, other than the World Series. It’s the first World Series that I’ve been excited about for some time. Despite the fact that I don’t like either team, you can’t deny that this was probably the most compelling matchup we were going to get [...]
Posted in Fish Bites, Marlins by: Michael Jong
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27 Oct
Maniac reader DavidC asked if I could take a look at the Marlins and dig through for an explanation as to why the Marlins have done so well despite a limited budget. I did something to the opposite effect for Beyond the Box Score, examining why teh Washington Nationals have done so poorly over the [...]
Posted in Analysis, Marlins by: Michael Jong
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