The Sabermetric Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball

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THE SABERMETRIC REVOLUTION This page intentionally left blank T H E S A B E R M E T R I C R E V O L U T I O N E ASSESSING THE GROWTH OF ANALYTICS IN BASEBALL BENJAMIN BAUMER AND ANDREW ZIMBALIST U N I V E R S I T Y O F P E N N S Y LVA N I A P R E S S P H I L A D E L P H I A Copyright © 2014 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Baumer, Benjamin. The sabermetric revolution : assessing the growth of analytics in baseball / Benjamin Baumer and Andrew Zimbalist. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4572-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Baseball—Statistical methods. 2. Baseball—Mathematical models. I. Zimbalist, Andrew S. II. Title. GV877.B38 2014 796.357021—dc23 2013026520 For all the left arms that made it, and all those that didn’t This page intentionally left blank ...