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Job Posting: Nationals Baseball R&D Web Developer
Position: Baseball Research and Development Web Developer Location: Washington, D.C. Description: The Washington Nationals are seeking a web developer to join the organization’s Baseball Research and...
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Yasmany Tomas Is the Most Expensive Minor Leaguer
Once regarded as a possible third-base option for Arizona, Tomas has been a defensive liability.(Photo: Keith Allison) Don’t expect to see Yasmany Tomas at Chase Field anytime soon. The 27-year-old...
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The Law of the Basebrawler
Rougned Odor is the second baseman for the Texas Rangers. You read FanGraphs, you know that. Odor has good power, plays decent defense, and really ought to learn to take a walk. Rougned Odor also has a...
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The Good and Bad of Shohei Ohtani’s Pitching Debut
I’m writing this about 24 hours after Shohei Ohtani pitched in his first ever major-league game. Certain things, I probably don’t even need to tell you. Maybe you made a point of watching the game...
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Effectively Wild Episode 1198: The Regular-Season Routine
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about returning to the regular-season routine, between-innings highlights on MLB.TV, Shohei Ohtani’s Angels debut, Gerrit Cole’s Astros debut, Ichiro’s home-run...
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Let’s Talk About the Jays’ Promising Projection
The 2017 season was a disheartening one for the Blue Jays. After back-to-back trips to the ALCS in 2015-16 — their first two postseason appearances since 1993 — they faceplanted out of the gate, losing...
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Jordan Hicks Is the Hardest-Throwing Pitcher in Baseball
Before we begin in earnest, here is a table showing the hardest thrown pitches of this young baseball season through Sunday’s games. Hardest-Thrown Pitches in 2018 Player Pitch Velocity (mph) Date...
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Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat: 4/3
12:05 Eric A Longenhagen: Hi, everyone. Sorry I’m a few ticks late. 12:05 joe: What’s Vogelbach’s ultimate ceiling if his swing changes actually help? 12:05 Eric A Longenhagen: Hold on, looking to see...
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FanGraphs Audio: What Joey Votto Sees
Episode 807 Travis Sawchik recounts three conversations from his tour of camps this spring: Joey Votto on aging, Chris Archer on four-man rotations, and Eric Hosmer on how Sawchik might very well be an...
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The Four-Man Outfield and Position-Less Baseball
One could argue that the first great, widespread data-based departure from tradition this century was the infield defensive shift. Based upon opponents’ batted-ball tendencies, teams more and more...
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The 2018 Fan Excitement Ratings
Personally, I find that, at the start of the season, I can hardly contain myself. It’s completely unsustainable, and I know I’ll feel different in June or July, but right now, I’m trying to keep up...
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Bartolo Is Back and Better Than 2017 (For Now)
It was only one start, but when you’re coming off an age-44 season featuring a 6.48 ERA, a 5.21 FIP, and a 5.4% swinging-strike rate (the lowest among pitchers with at least 140 innings), you’re on a...
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Kenley Jansen and April (and March) Alarm
With this generation’s Mariano Rivera on the mound last night in Arizona, and the Dodgers holding a three-run lead in the ninth, the game was over, right? baseball: there are two outs, the Dodgers are...
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It Already Looks Like the Fly Balls Are Here
I don’t know if you just watched the Royals and the Tigers. Probably not. Neither team is very good. The Royals won 1-0. Jakob Junis was terrific. The teams combined for just eight hits, and seven of...
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Top 19 Prospects: Boston Red Sox
Below is an analysis of the prospects in the farm system of the Boston Red Sox. Scouting reports are compiled with information provided by industry sources as well as from our own (both Eric...
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Shohei Ohtani Has Already Verified Something
After a shaky spring, Shohei Ohtani was basically as advertised in his first start on the mound — which is remarkable, since he was essentially advertised as the best pitching prospect in nearly a...
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Kiley McDaniel Chat – 4/4/18
12:04 Kiley McDaniel: I’m here, ready to chat and the pupper is taking a nap behind me no one wake her up 12:04 MD: Does Miguel Andujar‘s glove project to anywhere off the hot corner? How would his...
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Jose Berrios Throws Increasingly Rare Kind of Game
The trend in baseball is unmistakably one towards shorter starts. Pitchers compiled the fewest complete games in major-league history last year. That beat a record-low mark set the previous season,...
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Players’ View: Learning and Developing a Pitch, Part 2
Pitchers learn and develop different pitches, and they do so at varying stages of their lives. It might be a curveball in high school, a cutter in college, or a slider in A-ball. Sometimes the addition...
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Look at This Stupid Breaking Ball
We haven’t written very much about Jakob Junis. And that much makes sense — he hasn’t been in the majors very long, and it’s not like he’s broken any records. He plays for a team that isn’t that great,...
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