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Soaring Profits Make EBITDA the New Way MLB Teams Spell Success (Especially the Yankees)

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, MLB, Yankees on April 12, 2017 | 1 Comment »

Forget about WAR, FIP,  wOBA and other saber creations. EBITDA (earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) is the metric baseball fans should get to know. The Chicago Cubs won the World Series in 2016, but, using EBITDA as a barometer, the Philadelphia Phillies had the last laugh, presumably on their way to the bank. According to Forbes’ annual […]

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Jim Palmer Strikes Out at Critics; Did Hall of Famer Make an Art of Stranding Runners?

Posted in Baltimore Orioles, Baseball, Baseball History, MLB on January 30, 2017 | 1 Comment »

Is Jim Palmer the most overrated pitcher of all time? Disciples of defense independent pitching stats (DIPS) have often pointed to the right hander’s mediocre strikeout rate and extraordinary success on balls in play to support that claim, and the slight hasn’t gone unnoticed by Palmer. During a recent roundtable discussion convened by ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick, […]

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Dodgers Continue to Tip Payroll Scales as Yankees Look to Stay Trim

Posted in Business and Finance, MLB, Yankees on December 17, 2016 | 3 Comments »

The Dodgers opened up their wallets again this winter, but no one should be surprised. According to final payroll data reported by major league baseball, Los Angeles has retained its ranking as the game’s biggest spender for the third consecutive season. 2016 Final Payrolls Note: Final payrolls represent actual amounts spent (salaries, benefits, earned bonuses […]

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Should Baseball Union Be Happy With the Status Quo?

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, CBA, MLB, Yankees on December 3, 2016 | 4 Comments »

Most in the baseball media have declared management as the winner in the sport’s latest round of labor negotiations. Over the last two days, I’ve portrayed the outcome as a split decision by illustrating how the new CBA will do little to change the prevailing trends in the game. But, that begs the question: is […]

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International Amateurs Thrown Overboard as MLBPA, Owners Shuffle CBA Chairs

Posted in CBA, MLB on December 1, 2016 | 1 Comment »

Major league baseball owners and players continued their impressive streak of labor peace by tentatively agreeing to a new five-year collective bargaining agreement. Although the final agreement has not been drafted, not to mention ratified, enough details have emerged to allow for an early analysis. So far, the conventional wisdom is the owners were the […]

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To Go from White Flag to Pennant, Yankees Need to Regain Buyers Mentality

Posted in Baseball, Brian Cashman, Minors, MLB, Prospects, Roster Analysis on August 4, 2016 | 4 Comments »

Flags fly forever, and nowhere have more championship banners been hoisted than at Yankee Stadium. This year, however, the flag flying in the Bronx is a white one. With the Yankees fresh off their first in-season surrender in nearly a quarter-century, there has been a lot of focus on how well Brian Cashman performed at […]

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The Good, the Bad, the Lucky…and the Yankees: A Look at Early Season Trends

Posted in Baseball, Mets, MLB, Red Sox, Statistical Analysis on May 5, 2016 | Leave a Comment »

The Chicago Cubs are off to arguably the greatest start in MLB history. In the modern era, only nine other teams have had more victories than the Cubs after 26 games, but only two also boasted a better run differential. Can the Cubbies keep it up? If so, the north-siders could end up scoring and […]

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