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Sunday Notes: Tigers Top Prospect Bryce Rainer Had Serious Two-Way Potential
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (1780+ words) His pitching background is what I wanted to hear about when I sat down with Rainer last month. After beginning the campaign with a smattering of games at Low-A Lakeland, Rainer has put up a.267/.374/.455 slash line and a 118 wRC+ with…...
Darrin Jackson Tackles a Challenging Career Quiz
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (511+ words) Glavine fanned Jackson 11 times, which ties him with another pitcher for the honor of most strikeouts. Jackson whiffed badly in his attempts to name said hurler. Ramon Martinez punched him out on just three occasions, and John Smoltz did so…...
Ben Joyce Throws Two Fastballs, Too
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (184+ words) Joyce returned to the majors a week ago, and he’s featuring his sinker — or whatever you’d like to call it — more than ever. He uses it differently than you’d expect for a secondary pitch. He attacks the zone (or tries…...
Let’s Put Tarik Skubal Back on the Tigers
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (326+ words) OK, then: Let’s bring back the two aces and shift some arms into the bullpen. I swapped in Skubal and Mize for Anderson and Jobe, then bumped those two up to priority bullpen arms to give the relief corps some…...
Prone To Gophers Early On, Ryan Weathers’ Homeritis Has Subsided
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (391+ words) Ryan Weathers allowed a lot of home runs in the early months of the season. Going into the final week of June, the 26-year-old New York Yankees southpaw had been taken deep 16 times over 14 starts comprising 80 2/3 innings. Frustratingly gopher-prone, he…...
WPBL Week Two: Such Great Heights
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (627+ words) If you need a refresher on the league’s structure and mechanics, check out the Week One recap. On the topic of wins and losses, I’ve decided to include an updated look at each team’s record, run differential, and Pythagorean winning…...
The Old Man’s Christian Yelich Association
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (786+ words) If you want to understand the history of the Milwaukee Brewers over the past 15 years, you could do worse than the following graph. This is going to go down as one of the most important trades of the 21st century, and…...
Effectively Wild Episode 2517: You Can’t Give Them Extra Outs
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (18+ words) FanGraphs Podcast (effectively-wild): Play in new window | Download...
Which Teams Are Built To Be the Most Dangerous in the Playoffs?
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (419+ words) Of course, we’ll have to wait until October to see what actually happens, but for now, these are the projections! Underestimate the Padres at your own risk. One postscript: That Ford Tempo went through six alternators. I do not miss…...
Mike Trout’s Deadline Golf Trip: A FanGraphs Explainer
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (585+ words) Mike Trout has a golf course? This is the setting for the day’s events. This is Trout’s fantastical chocolate factory, and much like Willy Wonka, his visitors kept getting whisked away one by one throughout the day. I’m sure you…...