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Reddit mentions: 5

We found 5 Reddit mentions of Big Data Baseball. Here are the top ones.

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Found 5 comments on Big Data Baseball:

u/travgyse · 6 pointsr/buccos

Find Big Data Baseball by Travis Sawchik at your local library.

It's a great book that will bring you up to speed on how the Pirates were able to end their 20 year losing streak and their current philosophy for contention.

u/AJE10 · 5 pointsr/baseball

Big Data Baseball is a pretty interesting read about the Pirates making the playoffs in 2013 ending their 20 year drought. If you are into advanced stats and the data side of baseball its a fun read.

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Data-Baseball-Miracles-20-Year/dp/1250094259

u/VulcansGM · 5 pointsr/baseball

"Up, Up, and Away" by Jonah Keri is a history of/love letter to the Montreal Expos.

""Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s" by Jason Turnbow covers the Charlie Finley A's.

"Big Data Baseball" by Travis Sawchik is a Moneyball-style look at the early 2010's Pirates, data analysis in baseball, and the origins of today's shifting techniques and importance of pitch framing.

u/guitarburst05 · 4 pointsr/buccos

Ownership is notorious about not wanting to spend money to get better. Solidly in the bottom of payroll, but without the success and innovation of a low spending team like the Tampa Bay Rays.

You've watched for a decade so you saw the glory days of 2015. A team that won 98 games. Utterly phenomenal. What did we do to bolster that roster and prepare to win again in 2016? Next to nothing.

https://www.stadiumtalk.com/s/mlb-owners-ranked-9c52d648971e42b7

Here's the important part of his 29/30 ranking:

>Bottom line: Bob Nutting is proof positive that it doesn’t take half a brain to make a fortune. Fact is, very few mid-market teams pack this kind of potential. Insanely passionate sports town. Great baseball tradition. Out-of-this-world ballpark.

>If the 17th-richest team owner put the 17th highest-paid team on the field, it would be a fairly consistent playoff contender and even bigger money machine. But no, they opened the 2019 season with a puny $76.1 million payroll, 27th overall per Spotrac.

>As long as this once-proud franchise is held hostage by the tight-fisted owner, it’s destined to be a chronic underachiever.

As far as coaching goes.. it gets tougher. They were present for that 2015 team, and for all the winning seasons we had around it. Searage has been considered a miracle worker in revitalizing many damaged careers like Burnett and Liriano. Hurdle has been an incredibly inspirational, and surprisingly innovative manager. Their coaching methods were even largely the subject of a book by Travis Sawchik, Big Data Baseball

The magic just can't last forever. Teams learn. Strategies change and evolve. The Pirates didn't. Searage seems to have one type of pitching he can teach and if a pitcher doesn't work in his mold, they don't succeed. Check out Gerrit Cole and Charlie Morton and Tyler Glasnow thriving elsewhere as proof.

So to sum it up. All the coaching changes are much needed and may help, but they can only go as far as our stingy asshole owner will allow. One of the best sport cities in the entire NATION is shackled to one of the worst owners who doesn't give a damn about the passion we all desperately want to have for our baseball team.

u/NoBrakes58 · 1 pointr/baseball

Here's some recommended reading:

  • The Book - That's literally the name of the book. It's full of one-off chapters covering a variety of topics.
  • Baseball Between the Numbers - This one is also a bunch of one-off type stuff
  • Moneyball - Talks about how the 2002 Oakland A's capitalized on some offensive statistics that were being recorded but not heavily utilized to determine player values, and thus built a playoff team from undervalued hitters
  • Big Data Baseball - Talks about the 2013 Pittsburgh Pirates and their use of big data strategies to find defensive value where other teams didn't (primarily in pitch framing, ground-ball pitching, defensive range, and shifting)

    The first two of those are heavily focused on the numbers and will probably teach you more about the whys and hows, while the second two are more about the narrative but still give you some insight into hard numbers.

    Also, I'd recommend just joining SABR. It's $60/year for most people, but if you're under 30 it drops down to $45/year. There are a lot of local chapters out there that have regular meetings. For example, the Twin Cities have the Halsey Hall chapter. There's a book club meeting on Saturday (to talk about Big Data Baseball), a hot stove breakfast in a few weeks (informal meeting to just hang out and talk baseball), a regular chapter meeting in April for people to actually present research, and the chapter occasionally has organized outings to minor league games.

    SABR also has a national conference and a specific national analytics conference, as well. Membership also includes a subscription to Baseball Research Journal, which comes out twice per year and contains a lot of really good stuff that members have been written both from a statistics and a history standpoint.