Forwarding this announcement from SABR-L.  – Rod Nelson

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Society for American Baseball Research On Behalf of jim albright [jfaesq@...]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:52 AM
To: SABR-L@...
Subject: new articles on Japanese baseball history

 

I've posted some new material on Japanese baseball history at baseballguru.com. The first is a rewrite of

a previous article that looked at how hitters had been affected by the conditions of pre-1945 Japanese ball

versus the post-1945 conditions. The new material adds a look at how pitchers were affected by the same

changes, and then a little more in-depth look at the two sets of data. That stuff can be found in this

article: http://baseballguru.com/jalbright/analysisjalbright24.html.  

 

I took this new research and reevaluated whether the five pre-1945 Japanese pitchers I thought might be

Cooperstown caliber hurlers in light of this newer information in this article:

http://baseballguru.com/jalbright/analysisjalbright39.html.  

 

Hope you find them interesting.

 

Jim Albright