Power Surge

The Alaska Baseball League has been jolted with a dosage of high-current power this season. The home runs are flying out of the park at a rate unseen in recent seasons. In 2012, with just 29 games played (as of July 16), Bill Cullen paces the league with 8 homers. Second on the league leaders [...]

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Analysis of Runs Created in 2010

Sabermetricising the ABL’s most productive hitters. Now that the off-season has fully sunk in and the final 2010 statistics are upon us, we can start the work of going through the stat sheets and taking apart the numbers, and try to make sense of it all. During the last off-season, one of my more popular [...]

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