Baseball Prospectus has just released their PECOTA projections for 2019, and you know what? They hate your team. The funny thing is, PECOTA is not opinion, yet MLB players, managers and fans take it personally. An acronym for Player Empirical
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Picture the scene. Kansas City Royals owner David Glass summons GM Dayton Moore and team manager Ned Yost into his plush, top floor office in Kauffman Stadium. He asks what they need in 2019 in order to accomplish the rebuild.
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My first thought was an albatross. These sort of contracts used to be called “player-friendly”, but now they are dismissed by clubs and the media as bad deals. We can all see that as teams become more analytically savvy, fewer
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When Ronan Keating sang “Life is a rollercoaster”, he probably wasn’t thinking about the ups and downs in the life of a Diamondbacks fan. Despite having finished 11 games behind the Dodger Blue behemoth in the NL West in 2017,
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Ho-ho-ho. It is that time of year again. Unfortunately for baseball fans though, Christmas comes at a time of year when, save for off-season signings and Winter Meetings, there is little happening in the sport. But that doesn’t mean anyone
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Here is the follow up list for the National League based of the article I did for the American league here a few days ago, as before I have given one per team. Please note that a qualified players have
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Buster Olney is the true champion of “On Pace” tweets. If you’re not sure what that means, here his latest one: We’re about a third of the way through the season, and Aaron Judge is on pace for: 176 hits
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A warm welcome to ‘Baseball Brit’, Joey Mellows… With the 2017 season now in the books, fans of baseball have an agonising wait before Thursday March 29th when all 30 teams start their hopeful 2018 campaigns. In the mean-time there
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After a lengthy hiatus I am delighted to say that GOTW is back if probably not better than ever. The two-week spell without a post means we have a ton of GIF content to bring you which calls for this
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We made it! The final division! My deepest apologies to fans of NL West teams, waiting to see which players made the cut but better late than never right? If you are a fan of the Rockies or Padres, you
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