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How Big Is Too Big for Shortstop?
When examining the 2018 draft’s collection of top high-school shortstops, one is confronted with three vastly different physical entities in Santiago HS (CA) SS Brice Turang, Montverde Academy (FL) SS...
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Luis Severino Is the AL’s Best Other Pitcher
For a while, it seemed like Chris Sale was going to be an American League Cy Young Award shoo-in. Now, while Sale hasn’t exactly gotten much worse, the favorite might be Corey Kluber, who basically...
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Dave Cameron FanGraphs Chat – 9/20/17
12:04 Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone. 12:05 Dave Cameron: Going to have a few more minute delay; kid slept in this morning so got him to preschool late. 12:05 Dave Cameron: We will start...
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Planning for the Future in Today’s Record Home-Run Environment
I was driving recently in Pittsburgh, in my decade-old Honda Accord, when an NPR radio interview captured my attention. I can’t recall the names of the particular guests on this program (perhaps a...
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Players’ View: Role-Model Advice for Angels Prospect Jo Adell
As this year’s June amateur draft was about to get underway, The Sporting News published an article called Jo Adell Embraces Opportunity to Be Role Model for African-American Youth. The title was soon...
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The Most Confident Bunt of the Year
Sure, this might be a weird time to talk about something from June 4. It’s not like there’s any real urgency to this. And I will grant the unfamiliar phraseology. I’ll explain how I got here. As I...
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An Update on the Jason Kipnis Center-Field Experiment
Even the Cleveland Indians, the best team in baseball by run differential and authors of an AL-record winning streak, aren’t without question marks. Currently, they’ve got a significant one — namely,...
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Job Posting: Miami Marlins Baseball Analytics Internship
Position: Miami Marlins Baseball Analytics Internship Location: Miami Description: The Baseball Analytics Intern will assist Baseball Operations decision-making through the analysis and research of...
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Mike Trout’s Never Won a Playoff Game and It’s Weird
Mike Trout can do everything. Almost. (Photo: Keith Allison) In one form or another, the majority of posts at this site are based on some type of leaderboard. Highest average velocity among qualified...
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Job Posting: Wasserman Sports Analytics Internship
Position: Wasserman Sports Analytics Internship Location: New York Description: Wasserman is continually looking to expand its internal analytics capabilities to better serve clients across a multitude...
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Let’s Improve the Wild-Card Round
Since the second Wild Card was introduced in 2012, Major League Baseball has enjoyed most of what the expanded playoff field has done for the game. The extra playoff berth has made division titles...
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The 2017 Fans’ Scouting Report
For the last 15 years, Tom Tango — now senior database architect on MLB’s Statcast team — has hosted the Fans’ Scouting Report on his site, tapping into the wisdom of the crowd to create another data...
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Eno Sarris Baseball Chat — 9/21/17
1:14 Eno Sarris: This chat is one thing we could not fully automate, I don’t think. 12:00 Guest: has anyone asked for your autograph before? was it weird? 12:00 Eno Sarris: Nobody has. that would be...
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The Rockies’ Big Advantage in the Wild Card Race
The Rockies are struggling again. After winning eight of nine to re-solidify their lead in the race for the second Wild Card spot, they’ve now lost five of seven, including their last three in a row....
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Updating the Language of Hitting
We’ve written about a possible sea change in baseball over the last few years here, using phrases like “point of contact” and “attack angle” to better articulate the emergence of a Fly-Ball Revolution,...
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Rangers and Padres Pitching Prospects Open Instructs
Instructional League began in Arizona on Wednesday with the Texas and San Diego groups playing in Peoria, AZ. Lefty Brett Martin started for Texas and sat 92-94 with his downhill fastball, touching 95....
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Finding Baseball’s Most Improved Hitter
Now that we’re close to the end of the season, you’re going to see a lot of talk about the bests in certain categories. There’s a major award that goes to each league’s best pitcher. There’s a major...
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How Byron Buxton’s Glove Went from Good to Great
I was invited to appear on Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann’s podcast over at The Ringer this week. Among those topics discussed was the challenge of scouting in today’s game (a topic which Jeff...
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Effectively Wild Episode 1114: Net Gains
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the Glory Hole Recreation Area, solve the mystery of Bill Doaks, discuss archaic baseball language and how today’s baseball writing will age, and touch on...
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