Hindsight 2020: Oakland Athletics As the 2019 season’s conclusion draws near, it’s never too early to start looking ahead to 2020. For some teams, sooner than others. As each team’s playoff hopes officially end, we will be looking back at what went right and wrong for them this season as well as what to expect…
DetailsProspectus Feature: How to Catch a Record 39 Pitchers The 2019 season saw a record number of pitchers take the mound. That shouldn’t necessarily come as a surprise given the recent emphasis on bullpen production and the fact that nearly half the league was basically intent on punting the year before it even began, forgoing…
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DetailsYankees’ Aaron Judge: Boone is manager-of-the-year material As Aaron Boone approaches his second postseason as a manager, he was asked whether he’d improved since last year. “Man, I hope so,’’ Boone said Wednesday before the Yankees worked out in The Bronx in preparation for Friday’s ALDS opener against the Twins. One of his star players…
DetailsYankees starter on his ALDS status: ‘A game-to-game’ thing J.A. Happ hasn’t been told he isn’t going to start an ALDS game against the Twins, but the Yankees left-hander’s last appearance was a five-inning relief gig on Sept. 25 against the Rays when he followed opener Jonathan Loaisiga. “Be ready for Friday,’’ Happ said about…
DetailsYankees unsure CC Sabathia will be on postseason roster Last weekend Aaron Boone said CC Sabathia probably would be on the Yankees’ ALDS roster. Wednesday, the status of the veteran lefty was yet to be determined. “That’s another thing we are working through [Wednesday],’’ Boone said before the Yankees’ workout at the Stadium in preparation…
DetailsMariners Rumors: Gordon, Mallex, Santana, Pitching The Mariners were among the majors’ most active teams last offseason as general manager Jerry Dipoto began executing a plan to “re-imagine” his roster. With the club now on the heels of a 68-win season, Dipoto has indicated it’s in for a much more modest winter this time around.…
Detailss^2 = (Σx^2-(Σx)/n^2)/n-1 A common criticism of early sabermetric writing was that the advocates of advanced analytics were treating the players like Strat-O-Matic cards. That was to an extent fair, but modern playoff baseball strategy (would we be on saber 3.0 now?) leans hard into the idea, no moreso than in the Wild Card game.…
DetailsBrett Anderson Interested In Re-Signing With Athletics The Athletics’ season reached an early conclusion Wednesday with a 5-1 loss to the Rays in the wild-card round. The A’s defeat may have brought an unofficial end to left-hander Brett Anderson’s time with the franchise, though he hopes that’s not the case. The pending free agent told…
DetailsManagerial Rumors: Padres, Royals, Matheny, Pirates, Kendall Here’s the latest on a few managerial openings… The Padres are “expected” to hire a manager with prior Major League experience, MLB.com’s Jon Morosi tweets. San Diego’s previous manager, Andy Green, wasn’t a managerial rookie when San Diego hired him prior to the 2016 season, as he came…
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