June 2012
Player of the Fortnight
As a professional scout told me years ago, to check which players are playing at the top of their game, all one needs to look at are stats from the past two weeks. While Major League Baseball announces winners of Player…
20 under 20%
Faithful readers will know this is the fourth time we've looked at ballplayers with favorable prospects and are under-owned in most fantasy leagues. The first time we did this, in April 2010 , we unearthed Jose Bautista…
Trade Targets for Contenders
The new playoff format gives more teams hopes of making the postseason, which decreases the number of sellers at the trading deadline. If there is a silver lining for truly terrible teams, like the Cubs and Twins, it's…
ICYMI, Last Night was Draft Night!
The grammar police are taking the night off. There's not much form here, just free flowing notes I took down during the first night of the 2012 Rule 4 Draft. Great moment for Houston The rumors of Carlos Correa…
MLB Pitchers with Best Stuff
The quantitative bounties found in Fangraphs linear weights help us understand most of the who, what, how, or why certain things happen on the field. It is important to remember that pitch values are not a predictive…
June Swoons and Stars or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love BABiP and K/BB Rates
It's June 1st, and that can mean many things. for one: regression. Below are a couple of arrangements of players, as squads, whose April/May performances stand out from the norm. Potential June Swoons C: Carlos Ruiz ,…
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