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Examining Rick Porcello’s Strong Start

Apr 26, 2016

Boston Red Sox, Features, Major League Baseball, Media, Video

After coming to Boston in the Yoenis Cespedes trade and immediately inking a four-year, $82.5 million extension through the 2019 season, expectations were high for Morristown, New Jersey native Rick Porcello en...

Five Stat Friday: Opening Week Edition

Jesse Foster

Apr 8, 2016

American League, Headlines, Major League Baseball, National League

Baseball is back. Those three words are music to my ears. With baseball back, there are always opportunities to find cool stats from the games. Let's take a look at the five best stats from this past week. ...

Five Stat Friday

Jesse Foster

Apr 1, 2016

Headlines

1. Since 1901, two players have had a season in which they recorded at least 500 ABs while failing to reach 100 hits. The last time this happened was forty-eight years ago when Tom Tresh - who was with the Yank...

Five-Stat Friday

Jesse Foster

Mar 24, 2016

Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball

1. Only ten players since 1901 have recorded at least 20 home runs, 20 doubles, and 20 stolen bases in their rookie season. Of those ten players, only five of won ROY. Those five players are Tommie Agee (1966),...

Garrett Richards and the Quest for Strikeouts

Matt Wojciak

Feb 22, 2016

Features, Los Angeles Angels, Opinions & Predictions

Garrett Richards was good in 2015 -- don't get me wrong. In his age-27 season, the six-foot-three righty logged over 200 innings for the Los Angeles Angels in 32 starts, finishing with a 15-12 record, 3.65 ERA,...

An Unhealthy Over-Analysis of the Unhealthy Over-Analysis of Baseball

Evan Altman

Jan 19, 2016

Features, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

There I was, minding my own business and doing my best to avoid my family, when what to my wandering eyes did appear but a Twitter timeline filled with reports of poorly-placed fear. I really should know better...

Taking a Closer Look: The Slider

Jesse Foster

Dec 14, 2015

American League, Features, Major League Baseball, National League, Opinions & Predictions

It was recently brought to my attention that there has been an emerging trend among pitchers in Major League Baseball to rely less on their fastballs and more heavily on their secondary/off-speed pitches. With ...

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...

In Baseball’s Symphony, We All Listen Differently

Jeff J. Snider

Apr 10, 2015

Features, Headlines, Media, Opinions & Predictions

On Wednesday, the New York Times published an editorial by author Steve Kettmann entitled, "Don't Let Statistics Ruin Baseball." I assume Ketterman didn't write the headline, since the word "ruin" doesn't appea...

Price Dominates in Historic Opening Day Start

Jacob Resnick

Apr 6, 2015

American League, Detroit Tigers, Features

Everyone knows how good David Price is. What everyone didn't know, however, was just how good he would be in the Tigers' season opener Monday. Price took the mound to face the Twins and, simply put, shut the...

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