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The Fringe Five: Baseball’s Most Compelling Fringe Prospects
The Fringe Five is a weekly regular-season exercise, introduced a few years ago by the present author, wherein that same author utilizes regressed stats, scouting reports, and also his own fallible...
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Brad Miller Becomes a Slugging Corner Infielder
Eight hitters with enough plate appearances to qualify in 2016 have recorded an isolated-power figure (ISO) between .255 and .264. These eleven players populate the leaderboard from #20 up to #13,...
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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat — 8/19/16
9:12 Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends 9:12 Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat 9:12 Jeff Sullivan: This has been awfully inconsiderate of me 9:12 Bork: Hello, friend! 9:12 Jeff Sullivan: Hello...
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NERD Game Scores for Friday, August 19, 2016
Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric nobleman Rob Neyer, and expanded at the request of nobody, NERD scores represent an attempt to summarize in one number (and on a...
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Kris Bryant Might Be the Best All-Around Player in the NL
Yesterday, Kris Bryant did what he’s best known for; hit the crap out of the baseball. In the Cubs 9-6 victory over the Brewers, Bryant went 5 for 5 with a double and a pair of home runs, giving him 30...
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Yu Darvish’s Stellar Return Puts Texas in Position for October
Here’s the good news: the Texas Rangers have the best record in the American League and a seven-game division lead. Here’s the less-good news: our playoff projections give them roughly one-in-10 odds...
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Willson Contreras Has Developed into an Everyday Catcher
When Willson Contreras began to shoot up prospects lists last year, it wasn’t because of his defense. The now-24-year-old third baseman-turned-catcher was a fringe prospect who had never cracked a...
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Dave Righetti on Pitching
Dave Righetti was a good pitcher. In a 16-year career spent mostly with the New York Yankees, he threw a no-hitter and saved over 250 games. He might be an even better pitching coach. “Rags” has held...
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FanGraphs Audio: Dave Cameron Recapitulates Saberseminar
Episode 676 Dave Cameron is the managing editor of FanGraphs. During this edition of FanGraphs Audio, he provides a summary of events from Saberseminar 2016, explains the logic of the Blue Jays’...
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The Best of FanGraphs: August 15-19, 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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Jeff Hoffman Debut, Electric Boogaloo
I first saw Jeff Hoffman pitch in February of 2014, when he was a junior at East Carolina, and thought I was seeing the guy who would later go first overall in that June’s draft. Hoffman was electric,...
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NERD Game Scores for Saturday, August 20, 2016
Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric nobleman Rob Neyer, and expanded at the request of nobody, NERD scores represent an attempt to summarize in one number (and on a...
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Sunday Notes: Espinoza, Anderson, Clippard, Segura, Groome, more
Prior to changing organizations, Anderson Espinoza would sometimes be compared to a young Pedro Martinez. From a projectability standpoint, it wasn’t far-fetched. Signed by the Red Sox out of Venezuela...
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NERD Game Scores for Sunday, August 21, 2016
Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric nobleman Rob Neyer, and expanded at the request of nobody, NERD scores represent an attempt to summarize in one number (and on a...
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NERD Game Scores for Monday, August 22, 2016
Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric nobleman Rob Neyer, and expanded at the request of nobody, NERD scores represent an attempt to summarize in one number (and on a...
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Stephen Strasburg Has a Problem
There ought to be no shame in a pitcher struggling at Coors Field. Many of the greatest pitchers on the planet have been humbled in that stadium and, last week, Stephen Strasburg became merely the...
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The Ridiculousness of Aaron Sanchez’s Sinker
Aaron Sanchez was optioned to High-A Dunedin over the weekend, though of course that’s not indicative of his performance at work. Sanchez is a legitimate Cy Young contender this year, maybe even the...
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An Early Look at the Left-Handed Pitchers in 2017 Draft
The time has come for me to start spitting out scouting notes from the summer showcases I’ve been attending for the last several weeks. During that time I’ve seen a few hundred high-school players who...
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Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat 8/22
2:01 Eric A Longenhagen: What’s up, everyone? I published the first of an obviously multi-part series on the prep summer showcase stuff I’ve been seeing. Part 1 is here:...
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All Aboard the Keon Broxton Bandwagon
Sometimes things don’t work out. For example, this morning, I dropped my bagel when I was climbing the stairs. Had things gone according to plan, I would have not dropped my bagel when I was climbing...
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