RLYW posted their annual projections blowout this week. The Cubs win between 72 and 74 games with all the projections and average 74 wins.
2013 Cubs overview at The Outside Corner
I wrote a piece breaking down the state of the organization for non-Cubs fans over at The Outside Corner, part of our old network Blogiun. Check it out. Or don't. Or give me a yacht. All of those things would be okay with me.
PECOTA Percentiles are live
Baseball Prospectus has updated their player pages to show the PECOTA percentile forecasts. PECOTA percentiles are now available to subscribers. Those of you new to BP, or to PECOTA, might wonder why we publish percentiles in addition to the weighted-mean projections for players, which we’ve already released. The answer is that forecasting is an inexact science; the future is not …
Replacement Level Unification!
Thankfully, replacement level means the same thing now from BRef and FanGraphs. This is a great thing and makes things a lot nicer.
Your moment in Yahoo Sports! stupidity
Can you point out the error in this assessment of Ohio State's Final Four chances? I'll give you a hint in bold. Ohio State Region: West Who they beat: No. 15 Iona, No. 10 Iowa State Odds of getting to the Final Four: 8/1 Why they can do it: They're now the favorite in this region after other high seeds …
OV Forum Update
When we first started our forum we used a plugin that didn't end up working well with a later theme we used so we switched to bbpress. In the process, about 2500 posts were lost, which has always bugged me. I keep Another Cubs Blog around because it's content that myself and others spent a great deal of time putting …
How bad was Josh Vitters last year?
Everyone knows that Josh Vitters was terrible at baseball in his limited time at the big league level in 2012. Just how bad was he? In RE24 (min. 75 PA), Josh Vitters was the 17th worst offensive player in all of baseball last year, just above…Mark Buerhle. If he had 200 PA instead of just 109, he would have ran …
Poz on Theo and “The Cubs Way”
Great article by Joe Posnanski on Theo and changing the culture of the Cubs organization http://www.nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/51282651
HP on Stephen Strasburg
Unless you read every word, you probably didn't see that defacto OV owner Harry Pavlidis has expanded his internet empire to the Washington Post, where he will write about pitch f/x-y things for the Nationals. Luckily for HP, they have this Stephen Strasburg guy. Here's his first of what will be many great articles.
John Sickels’ Top 150 Prospects
John Sickels has released his top 150 prospects for the 2013 season. There are 5 Cubs: Javier Baez (18), Jorge Soler (25), Albert Almora (44), Dan Vogelbach (98) and Arodys Vizcaino (112).