Pizza Cutter has developed a new fielding metric using retrosheet data (part 1, part 2), similar to Dan Fox’s and Sean Smith’s. Good discussion at The Book Blog.

If you’re interested in “run estimation stuff,” check out Patriot’s last few posts. Sticking with the theme, there’s some additional discussion of the topic here.

 Geoff Young compares Adrian Gonzalez and Justin Morneau … and Jeff from Lookout Landing thinks Gonzalez is one of the most underrated players in the game.  

jbox and the GLB crew discuss Sandy Alderson’s interview on 1090. I’d listen to it, but the volume on my computer is awful (and/or it’s something with the recording …). Anyway, sounds like they got into it (again) about the Pads not having an advance scout. My opinion on the issue? I don’t really know (hey, what’s new?). There are some things you can only get from being there in person, I suppose. But there’s also a lot you can pick up without actually having a scout watch a team live, whether it is from video analysis or things like PITCHf/x. fwiw, here’s an older article from the USA Today on advance scouting.

There’s some good fielding analysis talk in this thread at DS (starting around post 24).

Peter Friberg has returned to blogging at Padres RunDown. Have always enjoyed his thoughts and analysis …

Brian Giles has been the 6th best position player in the NL so far, according to Justin’s calculations (based on hitting, fielding, and a positional adjustment).

Do ya need proof that you should take everything I write with a huge grain of salt? Here you are … on February 26th I wrote: “Well, I’m not going to post every day. Or I’m at least not going to plan to … blah, blah, blah.”

Since then: 122 posts in 123 days : )