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Projecting the Minor-League Free-Agent Hitters
Every winter, hundreds of nondescript ballplayers become minor-league free agents. Players are granted minor-league free agency when they’re omitted from a club’s 40-man roster and have also spent at...
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Job Posting: TruMedia Networks Client Support And Content Coordinator
Position: TruMedia Networks Client Support And Content Coordinator Location: Boston (remote possible) Description: TruMedia is seeking a uniquely skilled talent to lead and contribute in multiple areas...
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Let’s Make One Thing Absolutely Clear About Aaron Judge
One more thing about this season’s unanimous American League Rookie of the Year, and possible American League Most Valuable Player. At some point, we’re going to fully move on beyond 2017, and all the...
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Modern Hall of Fame Ballot: Ted Simmons, Alan Trammell, and (Not) Lou Whitaker
This is the third post covering the Modern Era Ballot for the Hall of Fame. For a look at the pitchers, click here. For the first four hitters, click here. The introduction below might look familiar....
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Effectively Wild Episode 1137: How Much is That Slugger in the Window?
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about pitcher Luis Perdomo’s unusual triples total, Carlos Beltran’s retirement, and Giancarlo Stanton’s trade value, then answer listener emails about Aaron...
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FanGraphs Audio: The Top-50 Free Agents
Episode 784 On Monday, managing editor Dave Cameron published a list of the top-50 free agents for the 2017-18 offseason. Later on that Monday, he discussed it with the host of FanGraphs Audio. This...
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The Eric Hosmer Dilemma
In light both of the ask and the inconsistent performance, the prospect of signing Eric Hosmer should foster trepidation among major-league clubs — a point made by this author last week when expressing...
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Projecting the Minor-League Free-Agent Pitchers
Every winter, hundreds of nondescript ballplayers become minor-league free agents. Players are granted minor-league free agency when they’re omitted from a club’s 40-man roster and have also spent at...
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Eno Sarris Baseball Chat — 11/16/17
12:39 Eno Sarris: old school, well titled 12:01 emlazar: What kind of market is out there for Stephen Piscotty? 12:02 Eno Sarris: I bet there’s a decent one among the rebuilders. He’s shown the...
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Death, Taxes, and the Orioles’ Need for Starting Pitching
Free agency began a week ago to an expected lack of fanfare. Unlike the NBA, where free-agent deals are often announced minutes after the midnight opening bell, it usually takes a little while for...
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The Winter’s First Trade Shows How the Game Is Changing
If you had Jerry Dipoto in the pool of which GM will make this off-season’s first trade, congratulations, you win nothing because of course he did. Trader Jerry is baseball’s version of the red...
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Corey Kluber Rides Historic Pitch to Second Cy Young Award
What’s so remarkable about Corey Kluber’s second Cy Young Award, the receipt of which was announced Wednesday evening, is he won it despite missing a month of the season. At the All-Star break, it...
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Giancarlo Stanton Named NL MVP
Giancarlo Stanton is your 2017 NL MVP. Barely. The Marlins outfielder edged out Cincinnati’s Joey Votto by two points (two!), for a final total of 302 to 300. Votto and Stanton each received 10...
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Effectively Wild Episode 1138: No Loopholes Here
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Gabe Kapler’s prospects as Phillies manager, Aaron Judge’s hard hitting, various end-of-season awards results, MLB’s baseball-studying committee, and...
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An Estimate of Every Team’s Payroll Room
Scott Boras’s life is currently populated by buses to Playoffville, a mythical creature named J.D. Kong, and squirrels in trees with nuts. It’s time, in other words, for teams to get out the checkbook...
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The BBWAA Did A Great Job
Yesterday, the BBWAA announced the last of their major awards for the 2017 season, with Jose Altuve and Giancarlo Stanton taking home the MVP honors for their respective leagues. And while there were...
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The Best of FanGraphs: November 13-17, 2017
Each week, we publish in the neighborhood of 75 articles across 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 —...
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Sunday Notes: Mike Rizzo and the Nats’ Analytical Wavelength
When I talked to Mike Rizzo in Orlando earlier this week, he told me the Washington Nationals have an eight-person analytics department that includes “three or four employees” who have been added in...
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FanGraphs Audio: Dayn Perry vs. the State of Alabama
Episode 785 Dayn Perry is a contributor to CBS Sports’ Eye on Baseball and the author of three books — one of them not very miserable. He’s also the lone Mississippi native on this edition of FanGraphs...
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Putting WAR in Context: A Response to Bill James
Nine years ago next month, we introduced a new stat to the pages of FanGraphs. We called it Win Values, and on the player pages and leaderboards, it went by the acronym WAR. We wouldn’t actually start...
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