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The Best of FanGraphs: February 19-23, 2018
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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A Brief Scouting Report on Shohei Ohtani’s Debut
Angels righty Shohei Ohtani, who appeared first overall on our recent top-100 prospect list, made his spring debut on Saturday at Tempe Diablo Stadium against the Milwaukee Brewers. He threw 1.1...
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Sunday Notes: Cactus League Meanderings (Mostly)
Chris Young is in camp with the San Diego Padres, looking to extend a pitching career that began in 2000 when he was drafted out of Princeton University. It may be a tall task. The 6-foot-10...
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Did We Get Free Agency All Wrong?
We’ve heard all offseason that baseball teams are getting smarter. One of the strategies employed by those smart teams is to wait players out in free agency to get good deals. Todd Frazier signed for...
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Travis Sawchik FanGraphs Chat
12:01 Travis Sawchik: Greetings from the media workroom at the Cincinnati Reds spring training complex in Goodyear, Arz. 12:02 Travis Sawchik: Let’s get started … 12:02 Howdy: Any chance Senzel breaks...
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A Semi-Complete Taxonomy of Baseball Ejections, Part I
It’s been an angry sort of offseason, which hasn’t been very enjoyable. I find the most reliable cure when I’m angry at baseball is to watch baseball. Baseball is pretty great. So with spring training...
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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 2/26/18
2:04 Dan Szymborski: Hey guys! 2:05 Lee: What are your thoughts on Franchy Cordero’s # of plate appearances in the majors this year? 2:06 Dan Szymborski: It’d be surprised if he got more than 100...
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The Legal Standing of the Chief Wahoo Logo
Spring training is here. It’s a new beginning! Every team has optimism for the coming season. (Well, almost every team. Sorry, Marlins fans.) But in this time of beginnings, we also have an ending....
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Logan Morrison, and the Twins’ Great Advantage
Logan Morrison is signing with the Twins. It’s a one-year guarantee, worth $6.5 million, but there’s also an $8-million vesting option for 2019. Morrison turns 31 years old in August. It’s only natural...
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FanGraphs Audio: Travis Sawchik at Home and Office
Episode 803 At one of his previous places of business, guest Travis Sawchik and the rest of his coworkers were accidentally sent a spreadsheet containing the salary of every employee at the company....
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Fortifying the Dodgers’ Rotation
Clayton Kershaw was the only qualifier on the 2017 edition of the Dodgers.(Photo: Arturo Pardavila III) When we last saw the Dodgers’ rotation, Yu Darvish was being lit up like a pinball machine in...
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Effectively Wild Episode 1181: Season Preview Series: Red Sox and Reds
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the Logan Morrison signing and the Twins’ potent lineup, the Rays’ potentially lucrative new TV deal, and two tidbits from a game played in 1870, then...
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Let’s Fall in Love with Greg Bird Again
In 2016, catcher Gary Sanchez packed a season’s worth of production into the final two months of the campaign, recording more than three wins during that brief period. Last year, it was Aaron Judge who...
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Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat: 2/27
12:02 Eric A Longenhagen: Hi everyone, and welcome back. Gonna keep things to a tight hour this week so I can hustle across the valley to a big league game, but I’ll move as quickly as possible. 12:03...
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The Ninth-Inning Rule Change Would at Least Be Fun
The history of baseball is littered with different proposals designed for making the game more fun, exciting, and accessible. A quick perusal of the careers of Bill Veeck and Charlie Finley will tell...
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Here Are the 25-and-Under Rankings
Recently, Kiley McDaniel and Eric Longenhagen rolled out a bunch of original content as the core of FanGraphs Prospects Week, and the highlight was probably their 2018 top-100 prospect list. Baseball...
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Tim Lincecum Is Signing a Major-League Contract
Pardon our inconsistency. On the one hand, we love having projections. Projections allow us to have an idea of what the future could bring. Projections let us think we know what’s going to happen, and...
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We Might Be Observing the Decline of the Windup
Felix Hernandez will play a crucial role in determining the fate of the Mariners’ season. Felix isn’t what he used to be, and no one expects him to return to that level, but we at least know that he...
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What the MLBPA’s Grievance Means
On Tuesday, the Major League Baseball Players Association filed a grievance against four major-league teams: Miami, Oakland, Pittsburgh, and Tampa Bay. Specifically, the MLBPA contends that these four...
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Kiley McDaniel Chat – 2/28/18
12:02 Kiley McDaniel: Hello. It is chat time. 12:03 tim815: Agree or disagree. 12:03 Kiley McDaniel: Hmmm. Disagree. 12:03 Waltharius: Is there any update on Hankins’ injury? 12:04 Kiley McDaniel: Not...
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