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The Fringe Five: Baseball’s Most Compelling Fringe Prospects
Fringe Five Scoreboards: 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013. The Fringe Five is a weekly regular-season exercise, introduced a few years ago by the present author, wherein that same author utilizes regressed...
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Felipe Rivero Is Nearing the Elite
The Pirates’ trade of Proven Closer Mark Melancon prior to last season’s trade deadline was met with much hostility at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers. The trade was seen...
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Tigers Prospect Austin Sodders Is Deceptively Good
Austin Sodders is building a groundswell of support among prospect followers. Ranking among the leaders in multiple Midwest League pitching categories has a way of doing that. In 10 starts for the West...
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Mike Moustakas Swings for the Fences
Currently 5.5 games out of first place in the AL Central, it’s still unclear whether the Royals will go for it one last time with a number of the same pieces from their championship season, or if...
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Gary Sanchez Isn’t a Superstar Yet and That’s Fine
Brilliance in small samples can be intoxicating. Case in point: in a poll conducted by ESPN this preseason, 41% of respondents predicted Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez would slug between 31-40 homers...
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Pitch Talks in San Francisco Monday Night
Come talk baseball on an off day Monday! On Monday, we’ll bring a great crew to the Independent in San Francisco, and we’d love to see you there. With the Giants taking a breather and stuck in limbo,...
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Effectively Wild Episode 1069: A Real-Life Left-Handed Catcher
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about an odd Neifi Perez appearance, John McCain’s Diamondbacks mention, EW’s August eclipse event, and a questionable fun fact, then talk to Janell Wheaton, a...
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The Best of FanGraphs: June 5-9, 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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NERD Game Scores for June 10, 2017
Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric forefather 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: Tigers’ Daniel Norris Channels Clayton Kershaw
Daniel Norris has no illusions of being Clayton Kershaw, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to emulate him. Who wouldn’t? Kershaw is arguably baseball’s best pitcher, and — according to the Detroit...
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NERD Game Scores: Nik Turley Debut Event
Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric forefather 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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Effectively Wild Episode 1070: What Winning the Draft Looks Like
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Aaron Judge’s latest home runs, Terrance Gore’s first home run, the Angels without Mike Trout, and a Mets precedent for the odd Neifi Perez appearance...
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NERD Game Scores for June 12, 2017
Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric forefather 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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A Revolution Is Only as Good as Its Process
Long-time UCLA baseball coach Gary Adams was nearing the end of his coaching tenure when he made his way to The Ball Yard in 2003 to talk hitting philosophy. The Ball Yard is a spartan hitting...
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Travis Sawchik FanGraphs Chat
12:03 Travis Sawchik: How, how about that Baltimore pitching? 12:03 Travis Sawchik: And apparently there is a draft tonight …. 12:03 Travis Sawchik: Let’s talk … 12:04 Babe Lincoln: You tell me. How...
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Projecting Brewers Center Fielder Lewis Brinson
Three months ago, few would have predicted the Brewers would be atop the National League Central in June, but here we are. The Cardinals, Cubs, and Pirates have all fallen short of preseason...
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A Greater New York 2017 Draft Pref List
Because most of my writing for FanGraphs is based on my KATOH projection system, you might regard me as the exact opposite of a scout. My work is often presented against the backdrop of traditional...
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2017 Live Draft Coverage with Eric Longenhagen and Chris Mitchell
Keith Law will unfortunately not be able to join Eric tonight, as previously announced. Chris Mitchell will be replacing him as Eric’s co-host. Tonight, the MLB draft begins at 7 pm eastern. Lead...
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Stephen Strasburg Has Already Had a Good Career
As a rookie in 2010, Stephen Strasburg turned in an amazing 68 innings of baseball. He struck out 33% of the batters he faced, posted a 2.91 ERA, and recorded an even better 2.08 FIP. Alas, it wasn’t...
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The Yankees Are Winning the Dinger Battle
With the weekend now officially in the books, Aaron Judge is the new owner of the longest home run of the season. He’s also the new owner of the fastest-hit home run of the season, which is...
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