Last month there was an interesting story on MLB.com about the Mets' hitting philosophy and the new internal hitting metric called Bases Per Out (BPO) that it spawned. There's nothing particularly enlightening about the hitting philosophy. Essentially, it's a system of selective aggressiveness in which the hitter swings at good strikes and lays off of [...]
Old baseball wisdom, which pre-dates the 162-game schedule, says that you are going to win 50 games no matter what you do and lose 50 games no matter what you do. It’s the other 50 games that determine what kind of season your team will have. Saturday night was one of the other 50 for [...]