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Is Home-Field Advantage Becoming Endangered?
Home-field advantage isn’t always considered a matter of great importance in baseball. Crowds aren’t as close to the action as they are in basketball. There’s nothing comparable in the sport to...
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2017 ZiPS Projections – Milwaukee Brewers
After having typically appeared in the very famous pages of Baseball Think Factory, Dan Szymborski’s ZiPS projections have been released at FanGraphs the past few years. The exercise continues this...
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2017 FanGraphs Chat Schedule
With the new year, you’ve probably noticed a few new things around here. For one, you can now help support the site with an ad-free membership, which is a pretty neat thing for both you and us. If...
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Travis Sawchik FanGraphs Chat – 1/9/17
12:01 Travis Sawchik: Welcome to my FanGraphs debut chat, everyone. I am sipping a generic seltzer water from Aldi and I am ready to go … 12:01 Matt: Aaron Nola? Thoughts? Does the UCL sprain concern...
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Pitching Cespedes: How Agents Negotiate in an Analytical Age
There’s power in a great sales pitch. The Ginsu knife ads included a blade slicing through a rubber hose and an aluminum can before carving a strip steak. Joy Mangano sold so well on QVC that Jennifer...
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The Mariners Are Starting to Look Like the Royals
On Friday morning, the Mariners made what looked like a weird trade, shipping useful outfielder Seth Smith to the Orioles for less useful starting pitcher Yovani Gallardo, who is both not as good as...
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Vladimir Guerrero and Quantifying Pitcher Fear
Whenever conventional wisdom and the numbers — or whatever conclusion I have drawn from the numbers — differ, I’m left wondering why such a difference exists. Many times there’s a good reason; other...
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FanGraphs Audio: Dave Cameron Analyzes Charts and Graphs
Episode 708 Dave Cameron is the managing editor of FanGraphs. On this edition of the program, he discusses an innovation (care of Baseball Savant) in the measurement of outfield defense; examines...
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That Time Joe Maddon Met Dabo Swinney
I was in the visiting clubhouse at PNC Park last May as the Chicago Cubs began to arrive for their game later that evening. Before games, at least for the period when media is present, major-league...
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Nate Karns and Useful Spin
When the Rays acquired Nate Karns from the Nationals back in 2014, the story was that he had fastball velocity and a power curve, and we’ll see about the changeup. We saw the changeup, and it was good...
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Justin Wilson on His Reverse Splits and Motown Role
Justin Wilson is all about getting outs, and he’s done a laudable job of getting them. Over four full seasons, and a fraction of a fifth — two-plus with the Pirates and one each with the Yankees and...
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Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat, the Thaw
12:02 Eric A Longenhagen: Hi everyone. There’s actual baseball being played here in AZ this week, rejoice rejoice. 12:02 Eric A Longenhagen: Oh, the Pirates list is done and being edited, I’d expect...
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The Market for Offense Might Be Overcorrecting
For a few decades now, the easiest way to get paid in MLB was to hit a bunch of home runs. Given the way bat-first outfielders and first baseman got compensated in free agency, the catchphrase actually...
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2016 Catcher Back-Pick Data
If you had the unfortunate honor of following me on Twitter during the 2016 season, you were subjected to several dozen versions of this tweet: Request: If your team’s catcher throws behind a runner at...
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Your Mike Trout Hall-of-Fame-Chances Update
Because we’ve been here for every moment of his career, we may have somehow lost track of just how good Mike Trout is. Obviously we know he’s the best player in the show right now, but it’s a not as...
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Did Game Seven Delay the Bullpen Revolution?
For much of the postseason – with the exception of Buck Showalter’s decision to strand Zach Britton in the visiting bullpen at Rogers Centre in Toronto – it seemed the game might be on the cusp of a...
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FanGraphs After Dark Chat – 1/10/17
6:04 Paul Swydan: In what month will Jose Bautista sign? January (21.8% | 40 votes) February (51.3% | 94 votes) March (17.4% | 32 votes) April (2.1% | 4 votes) May (0% | 0 votes) June (0.5%...
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Top 21 Prospects: Pittsburgh Pirates
Below is an analysis of the prospects in the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system. Scouting reports are compiled with information provided by industry sources as well as from my own observations. The KATOH...
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Dave Cameron FanGraphs Chat – 1/11/17
12:01 CamdenWarehouse: How has the response to the Ad Free Membership been? 12:03 Dave Cameron: Really good. We continue to be really happy with how the community has responded, both to our basic...
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Vladimir Guerrero and the Best Truly Bad Ball Hitters
Maybe the most painful part of writing about baseball for a living is that your biases — the same biases of which we’re all guilty — are constantly laid bare for everyone to see. Vladimir Guerrero...
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