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Do Pitching Stats Matter in Spring Training?

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

One common myth about spring training is that it actually matters. Now don't get me wrong, the live game action provides valuable experience for young prospects, and is useful to players as they battle back from injury. Even the grizzled veterans need time each spring to get back into the groove. However, if you're using pitcher's spring training stats to find hints at regular season success, you're going to get burned.

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Jeff Francoeur, Carlos Zambrano Display How To Predict a Player’s Decline

Monday, March 30, 2009

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As fantasy baseball managers, our job is not to assemble a team based on last year’s statistics, though many make the mistake of doing that. Instead, it is our duty to predict what’s going to happen next. Not many people realize this, but if you consistently make personnel decisions based on what happened last year, you’re bound to get burned.

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