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All of Major League Baseball is now on Pinterest
Despite its reputation as a female-dominated social network — or perhaps because of that? — every team in Major League Baseball is now actively using Pinterest. All 30 MLB teams also have official pages on Google+ and officials blogs on Tumblr. And the league itself also has an official presence on all three social networks. …
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Vin Scully – the Dodgers gave spread-out Los Angeles its core
When Vin Scully arrived from Brooklyn with the Dodgers for the 1958 season, he found Los Angeles to be lacking a core. “When I came to Los Angeles, all I knew was that it was like 450 square miles. There was no ‘there.’ I felt Los Angeles did not have a centerpiece.” The opening of …
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Dynamically priced seats – Baseball is using big data to improve ticket sales
“We work with half of baseball right now,” said Barry Kahn, CEO of Qcue, a company that helps teams sell dynamically priced tickets. That’s up from just four teams at the start of last season (2011). In all, 17 of 30 Major League teams will use dynamic pricing this season, according to Ticket News. via …
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The top 30 Baseball broadcasters according to Moneyball fans
The sabermetrics (a.k.a. Moneyball) website, Fangraphs put together an offseason poll. In it they asked the geeky baseball fans to rate their hometown announcers, with a particular emphasis on sabermetric insight. Then put it all together using a geeky formula to determine the top 30 Baseball broadcasters: 1. Los Angeles Dodgers (Home) – Vin …
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Advanced Moneyball statistics for the 2012 Baseball season – WAR, FIP, and OPS
Moneyball (the movie) introduced the basic concept of advanced statistical analysis to a mainstream audience. Now that we’re talking about advanced stats (short-handed as sabermetrics, thanks to Bill James of the Society for American Baseball Research) and great sites like Baseball Prospectus and FanGraphs, let’s take a closer look. OPS (On-Base Plus Slugging) This …
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A real Moneyball story – the reinvention of pitcher Brandon McCarthy
SEVEN PITCHES. That’s how long it took for the verdict to come in. On April 5, in the first inning of his first start in an A’s uniform, Brandon McCarthy went groundout, groundout, groundout. It was a one-inning sabermetric masterpiece. For the game, he lasted eight innings — the second-longest start of his career — …
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Baseball Spring Training is here! – 22 Angels games will be broadcast on TV and radio
I’m excited for Angels Spring Training and the 22 televised games this March and April. The games will also be live on AM830. Visit Halo Nation for the press release about the games, the two bolded games are Dodgers broadcasts. 3/5 – Oakland – 12:05pm – FSW 3/6 – White Sox – 12:05pm – FSW 3/7 – Seattle – 12:05pm …
Baseball's thriving start-up, MLB Advanced Media, could determine the future of TV sports
Launched in 2000, MLB.com was funded by the clubs in an agreement that had them each investing $1 million a year over four years. The cost was targeted at $120 million. To the joy of the owners and MLB, the Website started generating excess revenue in only the second year of its existence, allowing them …
Baseball’s thriving start-up, MLB Advanced Media, could determine the future of TV sports
Launched in 2000, MLB.com was funded by the clubs in an agreement that had them each investing $1 million a year over four years. The cost was targeted at $120 million. To the joy of the owners and MLB, the Website started generating excess revenue in only the second year of its existence, allowing them …