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Zach Britton and the AL Cy Young Award
Regardless of what happened in the AL Wild Card Game on Tuesday, I was going to write this article. It just so happens that a whole new level of context and subtext has developed since then. In either...
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The Most Important Red Sox Might Be the Middle Relievers
On the surface, the Red Sox and Indians series is somewhat evenly matched. The Indians won 94 games, the Red Sox won 93, and that one-game difference gives Cleveland home-field advantage for the ALDS....
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Eno Sarris Baseball Chat — 10/6/16
1:40 Eno Sarris: not beautiful like Thor vs Bum, but this has it’s own kind of beauty 12:01 Bork: Hello, friend! 12:01 Eno Sarris: Hello! 12:01 Steve: Which wild card game was more exciting for you?...
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Madison Bumgarner, Yoenis Cespedes, and Two Extremes
Johnny Cueto may have had the better 2016 regular season, but when the calendar flips to October, Madison Bumgarner becomes the unquestioned ace of the San Francisco Giants — their most important...
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Madison Bumgarner and the Crazy Path to Cooperstown
Last night, during Madison Bumgarner‘s latest playoff masterpiece, someone asked me in our live blog whether Bumgarner’s postseason heroics have already been great enough to get him into the...
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Rating All of the (Remaining) Playoff Teams
Come playoff time, you tend to see a lot of team-to-team comparisons. And when you see team-to-team comparisons, the people doing the comparing frequently lean on regular-season statistics. And, you...
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The Rangers’ Worst Swings Against Marco Estrada
When I used to come in to pitch, I’d take my eight warm-ups from the mound, and almost without fail I’d hear loud shouts from the other dugout that “this guy’s got nothing!” For the most part this was...
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The Night the Indians Flipped the Bullpen Script
The bullpen revolution was televised in Cleveland. While Buck Showalter was reaching for a short iron to lay up on a par five within reach of the green from the fairway of a golf course somewhere in...
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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat — 10/7/16
9:07 Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends 9:07 Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat, in advance of about 13 hours of competitive meaningful baseball 9:07 Bork: Hello, friend! 9:07 Jeff Sullivan:...
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Even Yu Darvish Makes Adjustments
You get into a bubble sometimes. Even when that bubble doesn’t look like other bubbles, it’s there insulating you from seeing something you should see. I’m always looking for that new thing, that...
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The 2016 Cubs Are Already a Success
After a few months of mostly meaningless regular-season baseball, the Cubs begin their pursuit of a World Series title tonight. This is the best team the Cubs have had in a very long time, and 108...
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Projecting Dodgers Left Fielder Andrew Toles
I’ll be honest: three months ago, I had never heard of Andrew Toles. I first became aware of the 24-year-old’s existence back in July when I was finalizing my latest KATOH model, and Toles projected...
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Corey Kluber and David Price: The Warmup Routines
Corey Kluber and David Price will on the mound later today when the Indians host the Red Sox in Game 2 of the ALDS. Before each faces his first batter, he will go through a warmup routine. The...
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“Pitch” Episode 3: Unwritten Rules
Earlier recaps: Episode 1 / Episode 2. Welcome to our recap of the third episode of “Pitch”, entitled “Beanball”. As always, there are spoilers, so read at your own risk. In this week’s episode, Ginny...
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Kevin Pillar Hit a Stupid Home Run
The recipe for winning in the playoffs really shouldn’t be that complicated. You want your good players to do well, and you want the rest of your players to do well enough. It shouldn’t take any more...
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Clayton Kershaw New Trick Status Update
Clayton Kershaw is starting Game 1 of the NLDS for the Dodgers, and that’ll be a welcome sight for a team that wasn’t sure if he’d even be able to make it back for the playoffs at all. There’s no...
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Bad Hitting Is Beating Good Pitching
As I write this, the Indians lead the Red Sox 4-0, thanks primarily to a three-run homer from Lonnie Chisenhall. The home run from Chisenhall, off David Price, was his first home run off a left-hander...
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The Best of FanGraphs: October 3-7, 2016
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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Sunday Notes: Eaton, Liriano, Cueto, Cubs, Postseason Pressure, more
Adam Eaton had an excellent defensive season in right field for the White Sox. The 27-year-old former centerfielder had 20 Defensive Runs Saved, the third most of any outfielder. His 22.1 UZR was...
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FanGraphs Audio: Eric Longenhagen’s Horrible Burden
Episode 688 Lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen is the guest on this edition of the pod, during which he discusses recent prep work on his horrible burden — namely, the forthcoming organizational...
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