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Tag: Corey Kluber

Is this the end of an era for the Cleveland Indians?

January 28, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

In a recent tweet, fantasy baseball writer Scott White lamented that 21 of the 22 teams in his dynasty league were rebuilding. This sad state of affairs shows how easy it is for fantasy baseball players to throw in the

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A decade of baseball in 101 useless stats

January 13, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

On Sunday 4 April 2010, Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Josh Beckett induced weak contact from New York Yankees Derek Jeter in the first MLB play of the decade. Here are 100 more useless snippets of information for you. Unless

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Why are the Yankees so tight?

July 18, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

There are many reasons why the Oakland Athletics continue to fail to win the World Series during Billy Beane’s tenure. One much-talked about suggestion is that the postseason is a “crapshoot”. Randomness has a bigger influence over the short 5-game/7-game

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Chasing Wins – A Fantasy Endeavor

February 10, 2019 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

We have moved into the month February, the Super Bowl is over and like a large number people I have switched my main attention over to baseball. But as Spring Training hasn’t even started yet so my attention is more

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Trading Away Your Best

January 23, 2019 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

The ‘Hot Stove’ that is free agency has been rather cold this year, with neither of the top 2 players (Harper & Machado) having signed at the time of writing. But there have been numerous trades and plenty of trade

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Strength of Players Faced and the Impact on Player Output

October 30, 2018 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

So the World Series is complete and the Boston Red Sox are champions. The team with the best record over the season won the playoffs, that doesn’t happen often so the usual discussion of the value of the playoffs compared

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The Cy Young Case for Blake Treinen

September 26, 2018 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball, Sabermetrics

The following is a case for why Blake Treinen should be considered as a Cy Young candidate. I am not certain if he should win but what I am about to detail is why he should get some votes and

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Evaluating the 2018 Cy Young contenders

September 8, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion

Gavin aka Tramps is back for the second part of his two post submission. Today it’s time to look at the 2018 Cy Young Contenders.  Born in 1867,  Cy Young pitched more innings and won more games than any other

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El Mago – How Javy Baez Learned to Live and Let Die

July 18, 2018 Padraig Whelan Baseball, Pinch Hitting

“There’s magic in the ivy and the old scoreboard.” That was the line once sang by Eddie Vedder in his ode to Wrigley Field and the Chicago Cubs, All The Way, and their longstanding quest to win it all. He

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What’s an Ace?

May 30, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Analytics, Baseball

Steve from Bush League Ramble makes his debut to look into the world of a teams “Ace”. It is a term you hear all the time, and probably use all the time, too. But have you ever stopped to evaluate

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