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Job Posting: Washington Nationals Research & Development Internship
Position: Washington Nationals Research & Development Internship Location: Washington DC Description: The Washington Nationals are seeking a motivated intern to join the organization’s Baseball...
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It’s No Great Mystery Why Matt Wieters Is Available
Matt Wieters is a free agent right now, but he won’t be for long. Spring training is right around the corner, and Wieters is a legitimate big-league backstop, so at some point his expectations and a...
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Finding the Next Great Defensive Turnaround
There are different ways to turn a team around. That’s probably an obvious thing to say, but it’s true. Another thing that’s obvious and true: teams are made of humans. Because of that, no turnaround...
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Effectively Wild Episode 1018: Season Preview Series: Cubs and Brewers
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Matt Wieters and debunk Scott Boras, then preview the Cubs’ 2017 season with Sahadev Sharma of the The Athletic Chicago and the Brewers’ 2017 season with...
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The Most Underrated Player in Baseball, Again
Usually, these things tend to go in one direction. We talk about a player who seems underrated, and then, in time, that player becomes rated more or less appropriately. We’ve seen this happen with,...
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Josh Donaldson’s Last Four Seasons, In Context
If you come to this site, or are something more than just a casual baseball fan, you likely know that Josh Donaldson is pretty great at this whole baseball thing. With four straight top-10 American...
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Baseball and the Tie Game: A Logical Match
September 29, 2016, marked a cool and damp evening in Pittsburgh. PNC Park was sparsely populated for game No. 159 of the regular season, the final Pirates’ home game of the campaign. The hosts had...
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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat — 2/10/17
9:06 Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends 9:06 Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to baseball chat 9:06 Bourque: Hi, pal! 9:06 Jeff Sullivan: Hello pal 9:07 Zach: Better long term outlook- Mets or Yankees and why? 9:07...
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The Disconnect Between Franchise Values and Player Salaries
Yesterday, the Miami Herald reported that Jeffrey Loria has an agreement in place to sell the Marlins for $1.6 billion, a more than 10 fold increase in franchise value from the $158 million he paid to...
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Four Perspectives: How Do MLB and MiLB Balls Differ?
Pitchers need to get used to a different ball when they reach the big leagues. The variance is slight, but it is nonetheless noticeable. That was the opinion of four pitchers to whom I spoke, and facts...
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Why Extra Innings Shouldn’t Change
We just had a conversation on Monday about the league’s ideas for changing up the game, and about tilting at windmills. Intentional walks aren’t that big a deal. Now extra innings are killing baseball,...
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LoMo Returns, Rays Continue Opportunistic Offseason
The Rays are one of the under-the-radar teams that the FanGraphs and PECOTA projection systems forecast to be in the AL Wild Card mix. As Jeff wrote last month following the Logan Forsythe-for-Jose De...
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David Robertson and the Dangers of Reliever Volatility
Right-handed reliever David Robertson is earning $12 million per year on a rebuilding Chicago White Sox team that has little need for a high-priced closer. The Washington Nationals, meanwhile, might...
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The Best of FanGraphs: February 6-10, 2017
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: Ilitch, Bader’s Bat, Baker’s Meditation, more
Mike Ilitch had a nondescript career as an infielder. Signed by Detroit in 1952, he was assigned to Class D Jamestown where he played alongside Coot Veal and Charlie Lau. Veal went on to play shortstop...
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FanGraphs Audio: Travis Sawchik Innovates on Demand
Episode 715 The prolific Travis Sawchik is a former beat reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and author of the book Big Data Baseball. He’s recently become a full-time employee of FanGraphs.com....
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Herm Schneider and the Immense Value of Health
Last week, Ben Lindbergh authored an excellent piece regarding baseball’s “ever expiring ideas” for The Ringer. FanGraphs editor Dave Cameron described the trend as a “devaluation of new ideas.” But I...
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Top 13 Prospects: Miami Marlins
Below is an analysis of the prospects in the Miami Marlins 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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The Calculated Mediocrity of the Atlanta Braves
The Braves aren’t going to go very far this year: that’s an assertion that’s unlikely to bite me six months from now. Both our Depth Charts projections and Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA forecast Atlanta...
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