Yankees aren’t that close to true Clint Frazier evaluation Part 7 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees This coming July marks the fourth anniversary of the Yankees and Indians making a trade the former looked toward the future and the latter focused on the present. Searching for bullpen help, the Tribe acquired lefty…
DetailsQuick Hits: Bloom, Draft, Krause, White Sox, Rangers Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom described some of the challenges that will come out of the unique circumstances surrounding this year’s MLB Draft in a discussion with the Jason Mastrodonato of the Boston Herald. Bloom’s organization is particularly aware of the value of an additional…
DetailsFanGraphs Audio: Ben Clemens Gets to Know the KBO Episode 885 On this edition of FanGraphs Audio, I welcome FanGraphs writer Ben Clemens to the program. Ben and I discuss the upcoming KBO season, his series on whacky World Series tactics, and the form we’d like baseball to take when it returns in the US.…
DetailsRemembering A Disastrous World Series Performance The worst bullpen meltdown of the 2001 World Series was not the one you think. You probably go right to Byung-Hyun Kim blowing saves in games four and five in Yankee Stadium, putting the Diamondbacks on the brink of elimination heading into game six. But that’s not it. You…
DetailsMerrifield Or Kingery? Scott Kingery and Whit Merrifield aren’t exactly at the same place in their careers. Merrifield, 31, led his team in bWAR last season and is considered by many as the best player on their rebuilding club. He’s a late-bloomer, but on the wrong side of thirty nonetheless, with 3.5 seasons under his…
DetailsOffseason In Review: Baltimore Orioles The Orioles kept pretty quiet again this winter. They added a couple veteran stopgaps to temper the timelines of their young players. They also lost two Baltimore mainstays: Dylan Bundy and Mark Trumbo – both of whom had been with the big league club since 2016. Chris Davis and Mychal…
DetailsThe biggest Mets losers with MLB on hold The Mets were the accidental contenders of 2019. When they tried, they failed. When they surrendered, they succeeded. Brodie Van Wagenen provided the words. In January 2019, before even his first spring training as GM, he assessed the Mets as the NL East favorites and challenged the…
DetailsQuick Hits: Rays, Franco, Gibbons, Phillies, Harper, Storen Wander Franco has apparently heard some of the positive chatter around his game. MLB Insider Hector Gomez tweets that Franco fully expects to have $300MM in front of him within four years. Of course, baseball economics make that a somewhat suspect goal, as there’s a decent chance…
DetailsCOVID-19 cause for Dutch clubs to make smart financial decisions Two days ago, the KNBSB (Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation) announced that in the upcoming 2020 season, no teams will relegate or will be promoted. Time for clubs to think about how to spend their resources. With no baseball played so far and the…
DetailsWhich Current Managers Had The Most Productive Playing Careers? For the most part, if you’re a manager in Major League Baseball, it means that you played in the bigs earlier in your life. Out of the game’s current 30 skippers, only seven fell short of the majors. That list consists of the Orioles’ Brandon Hyde,…
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