Blake Murphy Sports Writing

Title: Sabermetric Mining – Leverage Index
Date: September 7, 2012
Original Source: Full Spectrum Baseball
Synopsis: The latest Sabermetric Mining piece dives into Leverage Index, a measure of how relief pitchers are deployed by their managers. The article looks at how fantasy owners can use Leverage Index as a proxy for manager trust in a pitcher, thereby helping to identify potential future saves candidates.
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Title: Sabermetric Mining: FB%, HR/FB, “Lucky” Homers
Date: August 31, 2012
Original Source: Full Spectrum Baseball
Synopsis: The latest in my Sabermetric Mining series took a look at FB% and HR/FB, two home run-related sabermetric stats, and included an exploration of the Hit Tracker tool, with the goal of identifying over- and under-performers in the home run category.
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Title: Sabermetric Mining: SwStr%, K%, and K/9
Date: August 17, 2012
Original Source: Full Spectrum Baseball
Synopsis: This weekly Sabermetric Mining feature will look at a different statistics each week, explaining it and identifying how to leverage it for fantasy purposes. This time I took a look at strikeout-related stats, and how different metrics can help to identify over- or under-performers in the strikeout category.
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Title: Sabermetric Mining – Hitter BABIP
Date: August 10, 2012
Original Source: Full Spectrum Baseball
Synopsis: This weekly Sabermetric Mining feature will look at a different statistics each week, explaining it and identifying how to leverage it for fantasy purposes. This time I took a look at BABIP for hitters, what components go into creating a baseline expectation for each player, and how the stat can be used by fantasy players.
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