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Analytics Fundamentals

Examining the Twins’ Extra-Innings Strategy

Manfredball is here to stay. What’s the best way to play it?

Twinkie Town Analytics Fundamentals: Running the Bases

Part 7: It’s more than stolen bases. (Stealing is often not a great play, anyways.)

We Need to Talk About Clutch Hitting

Coming through in the clutch is (almost certainly) not a repeatable skill, but the Twins’ season might depend on it improving

Twinkie Town Analytics Fundamentals: Measuring Defense

Part 6: Errors, Fielding Percentage, and Gold Gloves are not enough — what should we use instead?

Twinkie Town Analytics Fundamentals: The Tyranny of the Save

Part 5: How a bad stat has contributed to bullpen mismanagement and what we should use instead

Twinkie Town Analytics Fundamentals: Using Linear Weights to Accurately Measure Run Production

Part 4: Run Value Stats: wRC, wRAA, Batting Runs, and wRC+

Twinkie Town Analytics Fundamentals: RBIs, A Misleading Statistic

Part 3: Building the foundation for measuring run production: RBIs, BRS%, and run expectancy

Twinkie Town Analytics Fundamentals: Busting the Myths of Pitcher Wins and ERA

Part 2: Who should get the credit? Building the foundation of evaluating pitcher performance

Twinkie Town Analytics Fundamentals: The Flaws of Batting Average

Part 1: The foundation of baseball analytics begins with understanding what batting average is and is not telling us

Twinkie Town Analytics Fundamentals: Introduction

Using the Twins to learn the basics of baseball analytics