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Alex Wood’s Worrisome Trend
About a month ago, the notion of adding Yu Darvish seemed to be something of a luxury for the Dodgers. After all, not only had the Dodgers emerged as the best team in baseball, they had entered the...
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Effectively Wild Episode 1094: Not-Live Listener Emails
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about live shows, bounced throws, the spread of “such is life,” stats displayed on baseball broadcasts, more strange fields, a Dan Haren rules question, and the...
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Indians Lose Michael Brantley, Add Jay Bruce
It was an eventful 24 hours for the Cleveland Indians outfield. On Tuesday, left fielder Michael Brantley sprained his ankle in a game against the Colorado Rockies, so Wednesday, the team put him on...
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That Other Truly Dominant Starting Pitcher
Health is the only real weakness in Paxton’s profile at the moment. (Photo: hj_west) In this, the year during which the all-time record for homers in an MLB season will be broken, there has been no...
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Lars Anderson Discovers Japan, Part 4
Earlier this week, we ran what was originally planned as the final installment of a three–part series chronicling Lars Anderson’s experiences playing baseball in Japan. Thanks to popular demand — and...
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Eno Sarris Baseball Chat — 8/10/17
1:39 Eno Sarris: Apparently this is obpmusic, so it can get on base or what 12:00 Eno Sarris: Let’s! 12:00 Hannah Hochevar: Vampire Tanaka struggled in the evening last night. Was it the dome? Or is...
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Phillies Promote Their Best Hitter From Triple-A
Today, the Phillies will add Rhys Hoskins to their roster, bringing him to the Majors as a left fielder after failing to find a trade partner for first baseman Tommy Joseph. A few months ago, manager...
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Effectively Wild Episode 1095: Ken Rosenthal on Sticking to Sports and...
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the new-look, less-stuff Carter Capps, then bring on MLB on FOX reporter and MLB Network insider Ken Rosenthal to discuss how and when Rosenthal relaxes...
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Young Players Are Leading the Rise in Three True Outcomes
The defining characteristic of that period in baseball now known as the PED Era isn’t particularly hard to identify: it was power. Home-run totals increased across the game. The long-standing...
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Projecting Rhys Hoskins
It’s been a rough season for the Phillies, whose record is the worst in baseball and sits comfortably below .400. They’ve trotted out quite a few bad players on a regular basis, including Tommy Joseph,...
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Projecting Dominic Smith
With Jay Bruce on his way to Cleveland, the Mets have called up Dominic Smith to play first base for the remainder of the year. The Mets took Smith with the 11th overall pick out of high school back in...
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The Multiple Paths to a Tigers Rebuild
Michael Fulmer is likely part of the solution in Detroit. (Photo: Keith Allison) This is Ashley MacLennan’s second piece as part of her August residency at FanGraphs. Ashley is a staff writer for...
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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat — 8/11/17
9:06 Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends 9:06 Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat 9:06 Jeff Sullivan: Feels like it’s been a while 9:06 Sterling Mallory Chris Archer: I appreciate you, Jeff. You...
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Daily Prospect Notes: 8/10 & 8/11
Daily notes on prospects from lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen. Read previous installments here. Games of 8/9 Dakota Mekkes, RHP, Chicago NL (Profile) Level: Hi-A Age: 22 Org Rank: HM Top...
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The Fringe Five: Baseball’s Most Compelling Fringe Prospects
Fringe Five Scoreboards: 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013. The Fringe Five is a weekly regular-season exercise, introduced a few years ago by the present author, wherein that same author utilizes regressed...
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Is Miguel Sano Hurt or Just Struggling?
We’re at a point in the season when you can reasonably split the data into two halves. In terms of reliability for batted-ball metrics, 50 balls in play is a good sample, and the majority of regular...
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The Best of FanGraphs: August 7-11, 2017
Each week, we publish north of 100 posts on our various blogs. With this post, we hope to highlight 10 to 15 of them. You can read more on it here. The links below are color coded — green for...
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Effectively Wild Episode 1096: Pivoting to Pivot Tables
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan talk to 17-year-old Jack Dumoulin, the first American winner of the Microsoft Excel World Championship, about how baseball stats helped him get good at spreadsheets,...
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Sunday Notes: Josh Bell is Powering Up his A-Swing
Half a dozen years after Pittsburgh drafted him out of a Dallas, Texas high school, Josh Bell’s power game has finally emerged. After going deep just 47 times in his first five professional seasons,...
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Effectively Wild Episode 1097: How the Big Mac Was Made
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about “Babe Ruth’s Legs,” then talk to researcher and statistician David Neft about how he rebuilt baseball’s historical record to create the Macmillan Baseball...
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