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The Ten Commandments of Sabermetrics

June 7, 2008

                1) Thou Shalt not Bunt.

                2) Thou Shalt Have no Low On Base Percentages Before the Cleanup Hitter

                3) Honor the three-run homer and the leadoff walk.

                4) Thou shalt not steal at anything less than a 70% success rate.

                5) Thou shalt make no idol of the light-hitting middle infielder. 

                6) Thou shalt not count to the credit of the pitcher that which is done by his fielders or by his hitters, nor charge him with their failings. 

               7) Thou shalt not abuse thy starting pitchers. 

               8) Thou shalt make no effort to ride the hot hand, for the hot hand is but a shape in the wind.

               9)  Place thy faith not in veterans, when youth be available to ye.

             10) Thou shalt not pass freely thy opponent’s number eight hitter, nor his cleanup hitter, nor his left-handed pinch hitter, nor any hitter that is thy opponent’s.

 

 
 

COMMENTS (11 Comments, most recent shown first)

tundra1010
5) Thou shalt make no idol of the light-hitting middle infielder.

Mike Socia in the dugout, Rex Hudler in the booth, and all Angels fans everywhere: Read the Fifth Commandment, then go and sin no more.
6:13 PM Jul 11th
 
dmcmurray
I am baffled by you saying not to ride the hot hand. I love having a hot hand on my team. But I am not sure what you are saying. Do you mean not to move your number 7 hitter up to number 3 when he is hot? Surely you agree with keeping a hot hitter in the lineup. What is it you are trying to avoid?
4:44 PM Jun 20th
 
DerekHiemforth
Praise thee not the Productive Out, *excepting* that thy praise extendeth only to comparisons with the most foul Unproductive Out. Deliverance from the greater evil of the Unproductive Out, into the hands of the lesser evil of the Productive Out, shalt not causeth thee to rejoice, but rather taketh only mild solace that thy fate mayeth have been even more dire. Saveth thine rejoicing for avoidance of outs. Verily.
1:27 AM Jun 13th
 
DerekHiemforth
Hearken unto the wise words of Cobb, where never shalt any batsman exalt the making of an out. Yea, even when thy task shalt be to advance thy brother baserunner, thou shalt do so not with out-making in thine heart. Verily, thou shalt approach thy at-bat such that, shouldst thou *happen* to make an out, thine brother mayest advance.
1:22 AM Jun 13th
 
jmac_66
"Thou shalt not disparage those who successfully get on base with the phrase "clogging the basepaths" "

except for Lot's wife, of course
1:44 PM Jun 12th
 
tiller88
Thou shalt not disparage those who successfully get on base with the phrase "clogging the basepaths".
11:06 AM Jun 10th
 
mikeclaw
Praise thee not the productive out, for the productive out is the falsest of false idols.
8:01 AM Jun 10th
 
wovenstrap
Thou shalt not honor the false testimony of the small sample size.
5:58 PM Jun 8th
 
kimchi
Doesn't SABRmetrics tell us that #1 should be, more precisely, "Thou Shall Not Sacrifice"...the occasional, unpredictable, bunt for a hit can be a useful weapon, but the pure sacrifice is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
8:29 AM Jun 8th
 
Richie
Remember that thine research goes under thy articles, and thine opinions under thy columns, so that it may go according to what thou sayest before, and thou mayest post long e'er being again corrected to no purpose or gain.
1:09 AM Jun 8th
 
jollydodger
Thou shalt not manufacture runs, merely score and drive them in.
...And on the 10th pitch of the at-bat, He grounded out...and it was good.
Thou shalt not carry 13 pitchers on a 25-man roster.
12:54 AM Jun 8th
 
 
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