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Effectively Wild Episode 1129: The Darvish Dodgers Difference
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the all-time leaders in WAR for two teams, what Yu Darvish has done differently with the Dodgers, and whether Carlos Correa or Corey Seager will have the...
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2017 World Series Game 3 Live Blog
7:36 Craig Edwards: I’ll be back in a few minutes, but feel free to get the queue going. 7:56 legeisc: What’s the O/U for innings for Darvish and McCullers? 4.2 for both? 7:57 Craig Edwards: I think...
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Contract Crowdsourcing 2017-18: Ballot 8 of 15
Free agency begins five days after the end of the World Series. As in other recent offseasons, FanGraphs is once again facilitating this offseason a contract-crowdsourcing project, the idea being to...
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Yu Darvish Couldn’t Find His Slider
HOUSTON — Yu Darvish left the visiting clubhouse at Minute Maid Park in a white T-shirt, a black baseball cap pulled low, and flanked by an interpreter by his side late Friday night. Down one corridor...
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The Best of FanGraphs: October 23-27, 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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Charlie Morton Now Dictating his own Fate
HOUSTON — The Charlie Morton I knew in Pittsburgh was nothing like the Charlie Morton sitting before a conference room filled with national media members in the depths of Minute Maid Park on Friday...
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The Dodgers’ Game 4 Hope(s): Alex Wood and his Changeup
HOUSTON — Dodgers Game 4 starting pitcher Alex Wood was asked a day earlier during his media session if he had ever pitched in a championship environment like the World Series. Of course, finding a...
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2017 World Series Game 4 Live Blog
8:12 Dave Cameron: Happy Game 4, everyone. 8:13 Dave Cameron: Just having a quick dinner, then will start chatting. 8:13 Dave Cameron: In the mean time, let’s have some polls. 8:13 Dave Cameron: Alex...
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The Decision Making of Game 4
HOUSTON — The power of the role of manager has diminished as more authority has been concentrated in the front office. But the manager position is a significant one and never more important than on the...
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Sunday Notes: Let’s Talk About Jose Altuve (and Batting Average!)
Following the final game of the regular season, Jose Altuve told a small group of reporters that once October rolls around, “everybody starts with zero wins and zero losses, and everybody’s average is...
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Cody Bellinger Did What Great Hitters Do
In the top of the fifth inning of Saturday’s Game 4, Cody Bellinger faced Charlie Morton and struck out. This was nothing too terribly weird — for a good long while, Morton was dominant, and the...
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MLB Might Have Another New Ball and Controversy
HOUSTON — The investigative team of Ben Lindbergh, Rob Arthur and Alan Nathan might have to get back to work. Not only has the ball played differently since 2015 when it became livelier, now the World...
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So That Happened
Source: FanGraphs One of the most insane baseball games anyone has ever seen. We will have attempts at analysis later. Now, just amazement.
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All the Times That That Game Seemed Over
I don’t know exactly what it is we just watched. From almost the very first pitch, Game 5 was unrelenting, and it didn’t let up for five hours and seventeen minutes. Even now, I’m afraid it might not...
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So What Do We Think About Bullpenning Now?
For most of this postseason, the primary story tying all these disparate series together has been the significant change in the way pitchers are deployed. After Andrew Miller‘s dominance last October,...
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The Absurdity and Insanity of Game 5 and of the Astros
HOUSTON — Game 5 resided at an extreme pole along the baseball entertainment spectrum. It’s not a game you want to experience every night, but it’s something about which we’ll be talking and of which...
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Does the Juiced Ball Lead to Straighter Pitches?
The ball is going faster in both directions these days. Velocities are up, exit velocities are up, and the players are openly discussing the changed nature of the ball. Slippery balls are maybe...
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The Most Unbelievable Moment of the World Series So Far
This has been a crazy World Series. Last night’s game was particularly nuts, but this whole series has been one long string of unlikely outcomes. Even the run-of-the-mill 3-1 Dodgers victory in Game 1...
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Incredulous Responses to Bill Miller’s Strike Zone
No one ever wants to have to talk about the strike zone. If the zone is called well, there’s nothing to discuss; if it isn’t, that’s a problem, but it’s all deeply unfulfilling. Fans don’t want to be...
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