Thursday, September 20, 2012  I’m a Sabermetrician and I Oppose
the Expansion of Instant Replay in Baseball  When it comes to
baseball I define myself first and foremost as an adherent of
the principles of sabermetrics. I define myself secondly as a
baycurious fan (I root for the teams on both sides of the San
Francisco Bay).  The Oxford English Dictionary defines
sabermetrics as the “the application of statistical analysis to
baseball records.”  The Oxford English Dictionary does not yet
include a definition for baycurious.  But let’s get back on
topic. As I understand it, sabermetrics is the search for
objective knowledge about baseball. Stats experts compile data
on what happens on the field and use it to properly weight and
value each action by a player as rigorously and independently as
possible. The community of sabermetric friendly writers and
bloggers then massage and interpret that information to convey
it in a vaguely comprehensible manner to their readers and
friends, the latter of which quickly le