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Is Roger Clemens worth his new contract? You can read JC Bradbury’s take at Sabernomics. Or you can listen to Steve Walters online on Bloomberg Radio, at 1:50 pm (Eastern) this afternoon.

Today’s guest blogger is JC Bradbury. JC is an associate professor at Kennesaw State University. He is well-known for his website – Sabernomics – which combines the best of sabermetrics and economics. And of course, he is The Baseball Economist (which is both his title and the title of his …

The Baseball Economist has now been on the market for three days. Surprisingly, some people have not bought this book. To further advance its cause, I thought I would spend part of my Sunday commenting on this book again. The Scully Model In Chapter 13 Bradbury asks “What is a …

As I mentioned on Monday, The Baseball Economist is a wonderful book. As you read it you are impressed with the number of surprising topics where JC Bradbury has applied economics. For example, there is the steroids issue. Apparently we are living in the steroids age in baseball. Home runs …

Thursday is the big day. The Baseball Economist (The Real Game Exposed) – JC Bradbury’s first book – is finally released on March 15. In honor of this event, The Wages of Wins Journal is going to devote this week to Sabernomics – or the combination of sabermetrics and economics …

Sharon Begley of The Wall Street Journal has authored a column today entitled: “A New Study Shows How Baseball Myths Can Hurt the Game.” The “study” Begley notes is not one study, but a series of studies authored and summarized by JC Bradbury in The Baseball Economist: The Real Game …

The free agent market in baseball is in full-swing and already gobs of money have been offered and accepted. With the money flying the cries about the disparity between the haves and have-nots are once again being heard. So perhaps it is a good time to review what The Wages …

In The Wages of Wins we use just a little bit of statistics. Much of the book is still friendly, easy to follow, words. But every once in awhile we let it slip that as professors of economics – who all have taught econometrics – we are basing our conclusions …

Frequent readers of The Wages of Wins Journal might have noticed that Marty and Stacey are not contributing much anymore. Marty’s excuse is The New York Times. Today he has penned his fourth Keeping Score column for the nation’s leading paper. Given the difference between what The New York Times …

Today I posted a comment on baseball’s revenue sharing at The Sports Economist. In this post I argued that revenue sharing has not caused payrolls to become more equal in baseball. Additionally, I noted that baseball has not become more competitive since the institution of the 2002 labor agreement. The …