Paul Mammino, Author at Baseball Essential

Finding Potential Relief Aces, Part One

Nov 5, 2015

Major League Baseball, Miami Marlins, National League, National League East

The most recent World Series Champions-- the Kansas City Royals for those living under a rock, won on the strength of their bullpen, led by bullpen ace Wade Davis. Davis has become a household name especially i...

World Series Preview: Bullpens

Paul Mammino

Oct 26, 2015

American League, American League Central, Features, Kansas City Royals, Major League Baseball, National League, National League East, New York Mets, Opinions & Predictions, Postseason

As I do not have to tell you the World Series begins tomorrow with the Kansas City Royals hosting the New York Mets. The strength of the Royals team is its bullpen lead by all-world reliever Wade Davis. The Met...

Greg Bird’s Unique Skill Set

Paul Mammino

Sep 2, 2015

American League, American League East, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees

With Mark Teixeira's injury coming at a bad time for the New York Yankees as the season enters its final month, the team is counting on one of the organization's top prospects Gregory Bird to fill Teixeira's bi...

Thank You Andy

Paul Mammino

Aug 24, 2015

American League, American League East, Baseball History, Features, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees, Opinions & Predictions

Today was a big day for the New York Yankees, the team dropped a tightly contested battle with the Cleveland Indians 4-3 and with a Toronto Blue Jays win the Yankees dropped out of first place in the AL East. O...

RWAR Update

Paul Mammino

Aug 9, 2015

Features, Major League Baseball

Several weeks ago, I debuted a new metric which I developed called RWAR, or Reliever WAR. In this article I broke down the theory behind the metric as well the equation I used to calculate it. The metric create...

A Yankee Fan’s Plea

Paul Mammino

Jul 17, 2015

American League, American League East, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees, Opinions & Predictions

Dear Mr. Cashman, As July rolls on and the New York Yankees continue to find themselves atop the AL East, the inevitable conversation that you and the rest of the front office will have is what trades should...

Time to Rethink All-Star Week

Paul Mammino

Jul 1, 2015

Features, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

The MLB recently announced a number of changes to the format for the HR Derby possibly in an attempt to regain some viewership for the event, which had its lowest rating last year since 1997. That could be due ...

Is the New York Mets’ Offense Enough?

Paul Mammino

Jun 23, 2015

Features, Major League Baseball, National League, National League East, New York Mets, Opinions & Predictions

The 2015 season has been one of hope for the New York Mets franchise. They feature one of the best young rotations in baseball with superstar Matt Harvey returning and a full season of budding ace Jacob deGrom ...

Introducing Reliever WAR

Paul Mammino

Jun 17, 2015

Features, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

As a huge math nerd and an even bigger baseball fan, I have fallen in love with the new statistics. I used to spend hours on end looking up players on Fangraphs.com trying to find trends in an individual player...

Entourage: MLB Edition

Paul Mammino

Jun 6, 2015

Features, Opinions & Predictions

Earlier this week the must anticipated feature length follow up for HBO's hit TV series Entourage hit theaters. The show which ran for several seasons and has many devoted fans throughout the world, follows fou...

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