First WSJ Baseball Piece Is Up
Dave · March 25, 2009 at 7:19 am · Filed Under Mariners
My second WSJ piece, and the first one on baseball, was published today. Obviously, the format and audience is quite a bit different than USSM or FanGraphs, so don’t freak out when you see ERA and BA used in the article.
I don’t really have a regular schedule that I can tell you to watch for, but I’ll try to alert you guys to pieces over there that you might find interesting.
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While it’s regretful to be contributing to a Newscorp entity (I’ve done so as well), congratulations are in order. Well done.
Good stuff, Dave, even if you are using those retro stats. I expect you’ll ease the “gray & platinum set” (temples and Amex cards) into at least a little 21st C analysis eventually. One area that would seem to be particularly appropriate for that outlet and audience would be the WAR stuff. I’m sure it would come as something of a revelation to many that it’s possible to come up with a “real worth” dollar value for players and evaluate contracts against that. Of course, five paragraphs doesn’t give you much room for something so involved, so it might be difficult (unless perhaps you can get an article into their weekend coverage).
I still don’t understand how you have time for all of this — school, work, writing here and the WSJ, the insane amount of text you provide to Fangraphs (and the inevitable toll inflicted by all the people bitching about your organizational rankings) not to mention the whole newlywed thing. Don’t kill yourself, man.
Nice work, Dave. We won’t rip you for using ERA this time. 🙂
I hope the Nationals scouts don’t read your piece on Strasburg!
Be careful, he is everywhere!
Good job Dave!
The Wall Street Journal. That has to take up at least 3/4 of their sports section.
Artical is a little short… is there a page 2 I’m not seeing?
I’d guess the strangest part of writing in the WSJ is the incessant titles of “Mr.”, “Mrs.”, and “Ms.” you have to use when referring to someone multiple times. I always thought that was a bit odd.
This is about the size of most similar articles on sports in the WSJ.
I want to buy stock in Stephen Strasburg.
Don’t spend those 30 pieces of silver all at once!
I kid, I kid!
Oh yeah, and definitely keep us posted whenever you write for them.
You guys are really getting around these days. I really don’t understand how you guys bring in ad revenue that “approaches $0 a day“. Judging from comment frequency alone you should be able to pull in at least a few hundred, if not a couple thousand dollars a month, at least. I have clients that make at least $50/month in ad revenue with sites that attract only a few hundred hits per month. If you want, Dave or Derek, I can help you out with that. Free of charge.
I don’t really want to discuss that, as it’s 1. depressing and 2. off-topic
I really don’t understand how you guys bring in ad revenue that “approaches $0 a day“. Judging from comment frequency alone you should be able to pull in at least a few hundred, if not a couple thousand dollars a month, at least. I have clients that make at least $50/month in ad revenue with sites that attract only a few hundred hits per month.
Ad revenue on baseball-related sites is really, really hard to come by. I’ve tested it myself and it just doesn’t work well – somewhere around 1/10th, or less, compared to the rate of what I’d normally get (and those aren’t exactly the highest paying niches, either).
Plus, when we’re talking about repeat readers, the situation is even more difficult.
At any rate, nice to see you have this WSJ opportunity, Dave!
I am with joser on the work load. You make most of us feel like slackers. Still doing photography?
You were right. It is for a slightly different audience but I still learned a lot in a short amount of time. We already know about Weiters and Strasburg but now we know about Hanson and Stanton…or at least I do. 39 homers as an 18 year old? Jeez…
Will you look for an opportunity to educate if given? I mean how sweet would it be to see some real numbers in the WSJ… I know I am a better fan from what I learned here, maybe the rest of the world can learn!
Oh… and I get the WSJ daily at my job and I never really do more than read headlines and major stories, so it was good to see something actually interesting that wasn’t major news. Great job!
I don’t know if Dave or DMZ plan to post this link, there is a story on them today from ESPN today about how blogs will probably eventually replacing newspapers when people start paying for information.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/090325&sportCat=mlb
Check it out
Like the article very much. Just to clarify, Felix day tomorrow?
I think I liked Caple’s bit on Jeter even better, and the link to the NYT story about Jeter’s defense. “He is still solid at handling slow rollers hit in front of him” is my favorite quote, but the image of Jeter bristling at questions about his D makes me chortle as well.
God, how I hope the Yanks don’t replace him at short until 2015.