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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The Man Who Hasn’t Been Hit in Almost Six Years
Part of growing up is realizing that some no-hitters aren’t necessarily great pitching performances. Try telling an eight-year-old that the six-walk no-hitter she’s watching is less impressive than a...
View ArticleBaseball’s Active One-Start Relievers
By way of Baseball-Reference’s invaluable Play Index, one learns that there are 39 active pitchers who have started precisely one game in the majors. Most of them have very little big-league...
View ArticleThe Diamondbacks Built a Super Rotation, Sort Of
Our extremely early 2017 standings projections have the Diamondbacks located a clear step behind the Giants and a couple of notches behind the Dodgers in the NL West, but with a 77-win projection,...
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The Top Prospect Who Technically Isn’t
Byron Buxton was drafted second overall in 2012. Between that point and the loss of his rookie eligibility last season, he was eligible for four rounds of preseason prospect lists. Almost universally,...
View ArticleLet’s Build a Searchable Baseball-Text Archive
Baseball provides its audience with great data. We’re blessed with a large number of observations and very high-quality record keeping. Even before MLB announced a radar and video tracking system...
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2017 Positional Power Rankings: Right Field
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Let’s Keep an Eye on Sean Manaea
After two starts and one week of baseball, Sean Manaea has the seventh-worst ERA among qualified pitchers at 7.15. That’s a pretty useless sentence for about five different reasons, but I’m going to...
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The Other Times We Saw This Ryan Zimmerman
Ryan Zimmerman is off to a great start. We’re only 26 games into the season covering 104 PA, but anytime you’re running a .427/.462/.875 line, it’s worth celebrating. Among qualified hitters entering...
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The New Relief Ace in Anaheim
If you had told the Angels before the season started that they would be in the thick of the Wild Card race approaching Fourth of July weekend, it’s likely they would have been pleased. Our preseason...
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