en-usLatest Player Discussionshttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.comFrom [link]http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/2517/remembering-indians-ss-george-strickland[text]ESPN[/link]: I saw an obituary in the Times yesterday for George Strickland, a player in the 1950s: Strickland played 10 seasons for thehttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=stricge01&topicid=31#P53Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:32:32 -0600http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=stricge01&topicid=31#P53Family and life outside of baseball is usually the difficult stuff to come up with, and I can't tell you much of anything that isn't already covered on Brouthers' wiki page. In "The Ballplayers", the SABR researcher states that John McGraw put him in http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=broutda01&topicid=30#P52Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:54:01 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=broutda01&topicid=30#P52looking for any info about dan brouthers: need for article. would like to know family history. schooling, any work related details. any articles there may be about him. thanks bohobb@gmail.comhttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=broutda01&topicid=30#P51Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:40:32 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=broutda01&topicid=30#P51Thought this was a fun [link]http://www.ohio.com/sports/18839649.html?page=1&c=y[text]article[/link] about Julio's career from the Akron Beacon Journal's Sheldon Ocker, who's known Julio better than most. *http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=francju01&topicid=29#P50Mon, 12 May 2008 13:52:35 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=francju01&topicid=29#P50Those next two starts turned out to be: 14 ip, 8 h, 3 bb, 19 k, and a 0.64 ERA. So at 7.88 he'll still finish the month with an ERA below 9.00... not a pretty number, but quite a difference from what it was just a week ago. Prior to his dominant starhttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=sabatcc01&topicid=26#P49Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:32:48 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=sabatcc01&topicid=26#P49Interesting... a couple of factors that I don't think could be replicated in simulations would be media pressure and in-game strategy, both of which probably work against players today. I think DiMaggio's hitting streak could be broken, but also suspect http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=dimagjo01&topicid=27#P48Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:35:06 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=dimagjo01&topicid=27#P48His problem has been his nonexistant command... I'm not convinced that command problems in April have anything to do with last year's work load. Maybe the contract pressure is getting to him, but I don't think we're seeing anything from Sabathia that http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=sabatcc01&topicid=26#P47Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:11:54 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=sabatcc01&topicid=26#P47From [link]http://www.theonion.com/content/news/yankees_bury_bernie_williams_under?utm_source=onion_rss_daily[text]The Onion[/link] NEW YORK—Citing a need for physical and spiritual cleansing after a Boston Red Sox fan entombed a David Ortiz jersey inhttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=willibe02&topicid=28#P46Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:49:07 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=willibe02&topicid=28#P46I want to know how many streaks approached or surpassed 56 games in a simulation. What's the expected value of 50+ game streaks in a universe? Perhaps it isn't unusual to see a streak like DiMaggio's in a universe, but what are the statistical expectathttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=dimagjo01&topicid=27#P45Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:14:32 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=dimagjo01&topicid=27#P45From: [link]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/opinion/30strogatz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin[text]nytimes.com[/link] with cool graphs. A Journey to Baseball’s Alternate Universe With the baseball season under way and the memory of scandal in the sport shttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=dimagjo01&topicid=27#P44Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:27:35 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=dimagjo01&topicid=27#P44Sabathia has been awful so far. Is it because he threw 256 innings last year? Is he feeling the pressure of playing for a new contract? Is he having problems with his mechanics? Is his weight is finally catching up with him? What are your theorieshttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=sabatcc01&topicid=26#P43Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:21:54 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=sabatcc01&topicid=26#P43On July 23, 1884, Providence Grays pitcher Charley Radbourn begins what may be the most remarkable feat in baseball history. "Old Hoss" pledges to pitch every game for the rest of the season if the Grays would agree not to reserve him for the following yhttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=radboch01&topicid=25#P42Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:21:25 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=radboch01&topicid=25#P42[player]Dave Winfield[/player] had an illustrious Hall of Fame career, compiling over 3,000 hits in 22 seasons. Two weeks before the 1994 baseball strike, Winfield was traded from the Minnesota Twins to the Cleveland Indians for the proverbial “player tohttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=winfida01&topicid=24#P41Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:17:40 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=winfida01&topicid=24#P41"Delehanty's relatives hint at foul play, but there is nothing in the case, apparently, to bear out such a theory." I can't find where I've read it now (which makes it a little difficult to say how credible the source was), but supposedly the night wahttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=delahed01&topicid=23#P40Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:17:27 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=delahed01&topicid=23#P40The New York Times (July 9th, 1903) No Trace of Delehanty Missing Baseball Player Believed to Have Been Drowned at Buffalo. Buffalo, July 8. – A close watch is being kept along the river below the International Bridge for the reappearance of the bodhttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=delahed01&topicid=23#P39Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:03:10 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=delahed01&topicid=23#P39