en-usLatest Player Discussionshttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.comFrom [link]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/sports/baseball/kei-igawa-the-lost-yankee.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all[text]The New York Times[/link] By BILL PENNINGTON Published: July 23, 2011 TRENTON — In the middle of a bright Manhattan summer afternohttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=igawake01&topicid=35#P57Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:53:09 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=igawake01&topicid=35#P57From: [link]http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6626419/importance-ichiro[text]Grantland[/link] Immigrant Misappropriations: The Importance of Ichiro By Jay Caspian Kang POSTED JUNE 14, 2011 Ten years after Ichiro Suzuki broke into the majors, http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=suzukic01&topicid=34#P56Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:49:14 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=suzukic01&topicid=34#P56From [link]http://www.startribune.com/sports/twins/122036779.html[text]The Star Tribune[/link]: Article by: MICHAEL DORSHER Updated: May 17, 2011 - 3:25 PM Harmon Killebrew didn't quite know what he was getting into when he was asked to make a publhttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=killeha01&topicid=33#P55Tue, 17 May 2011 20:56:21 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=killeha01&topicid=33#P55From [link]http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2011/04/honeycutt_took_time_to_encoura.html[text]Cleveland.com[/link]: This spring, we asked readers to tell us their best memory at an Indians game. More than 600 of you responded. All season, Thhttp://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=honeyri01&topicid=32#P54Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:14:51 -0500http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/stats/player.php?id=honeyri01&topicid=32#P54From [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#P43