Excuse the clickbait title, but Shohei Ohtani‘s 2021 is one of the most exciting campaigns in, well, perhaps ever. According to Baseball Reference, he has accumulated 7.8 WAR, thanks to 91 runs, 94 RBI, 23 stolen bases, and 44 home
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Episode 246 – All-Star Weekend & Draft Recap
Ben and Russell team up for a two-man spin through the week’s All-Star festivities, from Shohei Ohtani’s eye-popping performances just about everywhere to Charlie Freeman’s adorable cameos. There’s also the usual two good, two bad chat, some MLB draft reviews
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Episode 245 – History of Japanese Baseball – Blair Williams
Russell talked with @Razzball and @PitcherList writer @EverywhereBlair about the history of baseball in Japan. They covered the origins of NPB, Shohei, the Olympics and that some of what you might know and maybe read recently about Japanese baseball and
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Episode 226 – The Second Coming of Mike Piazza
John, Rob and Russell are back with our first weekly MLB show of the season. They spare praise for MLB’s All-Star Game move, Shohei Ohtani, Akil Baddoo and Jazz Chisholm, but scorn the number of fun players already hit by
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Los Angeles Angels: Spring Training Battle
Jo Adell won’t make the Opening Day roster … however, the Angels are giving him every opportunity to impress. The star prospect has appeared in all but two of the Angels’ games, hitting two homers with an attention-gaining 1.250 OPS.
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Revisiting Baseball Brit taking on PECOTA
Hopefully, you read the previous article reviewing 2019 PECOTA projections, entitled “Just accept it, PECOTA hates your team”, and you are still in the mood for more discussion about projections. As you know, PECOTA is the algorithm from Baseball Prospectus
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JUST ACCEPT IT, PECOTA HATES YOUR TEAM
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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Three minutes on the Los Angeles Angels
It is hard to argue that the Angels were not the most exciting MLB team to watch last season: Shohei Ohtani pitching, Shohei Ohtani hitting, Andrelton Simmons’ wizardry at shortstop and of course, Mike Trout, the greatest player on the
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What does each MLB club want in their Christmas stocking? Part One
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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Strength of Players Faced and the Impact on Player Output
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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