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October 11, 2017

Baseball Therapy: The Verlander Move

by Russell A. Carleton

Known leverage vs. hypothetical leverage, and A.J. Hinch's decision tree.

October 2, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Confessions of a Fake Manager: August

by Russell A. Carleton

Can manager Russell Carleton and the fake 2005 Cubs make a late-season playoff push?

September 28, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Confessions of a Fake Manager: July

by Russell A. Carleton

Follow along as SaberManager™ leads the 2005 Chicago Cubs through the fourth month of their season.

September 26, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Confessions of a Fake Manager: June

by Russell A. Carleton

Follow along as SaberManager™ leads the 2005 Chicago Cubs through the third month of their season.

September 21, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Confessions of a Fake Manager: May

by Russell A. Carleton

Follow along as SaberManager™ leads the 2005 Chicago Cubs through the second month of their season.

September 19, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Confessions of a Fake Manager: April

by Russell A. Carleton

Follow along as SaberManager™ leads the 2005 Chicago Cubs through the first month of their season.

September 13, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Confessions of a Fake Manager: The Set Up

by Russell A. Carleton

What would Freud say about the 2005 Chicago Cubs?

September 7, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Let's Design a Five-Way Tiebreaker

by Russell A. Carleton

All hail Team Entropy!

August 29, 2017

Baseball Therapy: B-E Aggressive!

by Russell A. Carleton

Swing hard, in case you hit it.

August 23, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Positional Anarchy!

by Russell A. Carleton

The Shift. Four-man outfields. Five-man infields. Joe Maddon madness. What does a 'position' even mean now?

August 15, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Whether to Waxahachie

by Russell A. Carleton

Why don't more managers stash a reliever in left fielder for one batter in order to preserve the platoon advantage?

August 9, 2017

Baseball Therapy: The Case of the Missing Fireman

by Russell A. Carleton

Who's to blame for the disappearance of the multi-inning reliever? Tony La Russa? Dennis Eckersley? Goose Gossage?

July 25, 2017

Baseball Therapy: The Justin Smoak Problem

by Russell A. Carleton

Calendars are just a construct, man.

July 12, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Mr. Jones and Me

by Russell A. Carleton

"To me it just means getting rid of all these stats. Everything they're throwing at us nowadays."

July 5, 2017

Baseball Therapy: The Great Debates

by Russell A. Carleton

Baseball's most important questions are ripe for arguing about.

June 27, 2017

Baseball Therapy: The Pendulum Swings Back

by Russell A. Carleton

Something to think about next time you feel the urge to boo a pickoff attempt.

June 21, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Senior Signs

by Russell A. Carleton

How the draft actually works now.

June 14, 2017

Baseball Therapy: The Fly Ball ... Revolution?

by Russell A. Carleton

You say you want a revolution, well all right.

June 6, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Fire Up the Time Machine

by Russell A. Carleton

What would happen if we sent Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton back in time? And can anyone there hit Aroldis Chapman's fastball?

May 31, 2017

Baseball Therapy: Circumstances, Implementation, and the Slow Change of Baseball

by Russell A. Carleton

Are we there yet?