watching expired appliances align

last night i think i all but put my registration money on the table (i think it was the excitement from reading mitch's notes from arizona). i confirmed to dan that i will be playing in the brooklyn rotisserie baseball league he's setting up. that means i have to get serious about knowing stats and players - no more getting sabermetrics confused with the number of different flights leaving for california on any given day. no more joking around in front of the tv about how i'm actually familiar with the name tejada. now i have to know that not only is he a major league baseball player, i have to know what position he plays and whether or not he's any good.

a lot of the stuff i'm going to have to know is probably going to come down to pitching, right?

to develop a better insight into that position and understand how players relate to each other, i'll be checking out this graph by colby cosh, which uses pretty colors and variously sized circles to cover ideas about strikeouts and bases on balls. (link via baseball musings, which explains the chart much better than i could ever hope to).

now, where is that copy of moneyball that sujan's been reading?