Imagining a Socially-Distanced Baseball Last Friday on Effectively Wild, Meg and Ben (Not me! Curse you, Lindbergh, for your recognizable Ben-ness!) answered a question that several readers had asked. How, the readers wondered, might baseball exist if everyone involved in the game were required to remain at least six feet apart at all times? It’s…
DetailsD1 Analytics: Top 100 Pitchers 2019-2020 Seasons Who are the nation’s Top 100 pitchers from an analytical standpoint when you combine the first four weeks of 2020 with the entire 2019 campaign? Source: https://d1baseball.com/analysis/d1-analytics-top-100-pitchers-2019-2020-seasons/
DetailsJay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 3/30/20 Source: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jay-jaffe-fangraphs-chat-3-30-20/
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High Fastballs and Hidden Strikeouts Every year, I help write the Fantasy Profiles you see on FanGraphs player pages. One of my assigned players for the 2020 season was Michael Pineda. Pineda is a bit of a mystery. In 2019, his fastball was a unicorn. Nothing in his profile made sense. I decided to investigate,…
DetailsBuffalo baseball lore gets modern retelling Jim Overfield leads a Buffalo baseball history project that picks up his historian father Joe Overfield’s greatest work — 35 years after the original publication. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20200330&content_id=313159280&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
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Breakout Candidate: Max Fried Max Fried ranked among the Braves’ top prospects from the time they acquired him as the headlining young piece in a trade that sent Justin Upton to the Padres until he exhausted his rookie status in 2018. From 2015-17, Fried was considered among the best in a deep system,but he never…
DetailsCreating Your Own Cards with the Rookies App It is scary out there. And probably not the best time for a post, but writing helps me keep sane during these trying times. I also thought that there might be a few of you looking for a diversion as we shelter in place. One of the…
DetailsMLB Isn’t Losing TV Revenues Yet Underpinning the agreement between the players and owners about how to approach this season is an acknowledgement that revenues are going to be down in 2020, no matter when this season starts. To start, the season itself is in jeopardy as the country and world deals with the COVID-19…
DetailsMets mailbag: Noah Syndergaard fallout, plan for Andres Gimenez You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Mets. If they are going to try to squeeze…
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A FanGraphs Update: We’re Asking for Your Help This is not how I planned to begin FanGraphs’ 15th year. I wanted to take a moment to personally inform all of our readers about what’s been going on at FanGraphs these past few weeks, and to share our plans going forward. Starting March 12, after the…
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