Felix Hernandez
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Who Should Win the MVP?
Buster Olney got it started early this morning... In the wide open AL Cy Young race, the frontrunners from here look to be: 1. Felix Hernandez. 2. Verlander. 3. Weaver. As of today. — Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) August…
Player of the Fortnight
We're a little more than two weeks past the All Star break. So, it's as good a time as any to hand out some virtual hardware. About a month ago , our winners were Carlos Beltran , R.A. Dickey , Trevor Plouffe , and Yu…
State of the Disabled List
Jason Martinez, of the remarkably comprehensive website MLBdepthcharts.com , tweeted a keen observation on Sunday: According to my calculations, there are 166 players on the DL. #Padres lead league with 14. #Rangers…
A Few Good Stats
The Society for American Baseball Research celebrates SABR Day each year on the Saturday before the Super Bowl. We took part by spending a little time on Baseball-Reference and Fangraphs, ultimately sharing a quick…
Stolen Bases Against Lefty Pitchers
From today's Buster Olney column , his Stat of the day : " Ted Lilly allowed the most stolen base attempts in 2011, with baserunners swiping 35 bags in 37 chances off of the Los Angeles Dodgers southpaw. The remaining…
Our Return to Dontrelle's Bandwagon
Dontrelle Willis is four games into his comeback. Carrying a 3.52 ERA and 0-1 record into his start in Houston on Wednesday night, D-Train fans have reason for optimism. According to Fangraphs , Dontrelle Willis has…
MLB Pitchers with Best Stuff
We did this a few months ago, when there was such a small sample size, it was almost a waste of time. Tonight, we'll be looking at the Fangraphs Pitch Value Leaderboards to determine who has the best stuff. No hyperbole…
Looking Back at Opponents' OPS Leaders
Expanding on our last post , looking at pitchers’ Opponents' OPS, here is a historical look at Oops leaders of this millennium. In our constant quest to find the best pitching in baseball, this time, only pitchers…
Hyperbole, I has It
Walked into the office this morning to see Hall of Fame writer, Peter Gammons, tweet this : From one who knows pitching:"The command and stuff Pineda gets from that angle is uncanny. He could end up better than Felix"…
Pitch Value Leaderboards
No time nor use for rhetoric tonight. The following are current 2011 leader boards for Fangraphs' Pitch Type Linear Weights , Pitch Values. The statistic shown is total runs saved above average. Best Fastball Tim Hudson…
Ranking Pitchers by Win Projections
Awesome reader Gavin emailed a question in today. He writes... In a real simple season long pool. All it is, is u take 20 pitchers, u get 1 point per win and whoever has the most accumulated wins at the end wins. Have…
King Felix as Jules Winnfield
Have you seen these photos? Courtesy of @ OctagonBaseball , here are shots from an ESPN Mag shoot of the Mariners' Garrett Olson and Felix Hernandez dressed as Pulp Fiction 's Jules and Vincent. Felix is the best.…
2010 MVP & Cy Young Awards
Everyone else is doing it, so here are our predictions. These are not predictions of who will win, but rather whom we believe should win. American League Most Valuable Player Josh Hamilton, Rangers In my heart of…
Ugh, Pitcher Wins? Is this 1972?
How bad can things get in Cleveland? LeBron is gone, so the Cavs are terrible. The Indians are playing out the string. The Browns are ranked 32nd on most power polls, including ESPN's. They don't even have a hockey…
Player of the Fortnight vol. 3
It’s been a few weeks since we handed out any hardware , so we’re excited to present our third edition of Players of the Fortnight. (All stats courtesy of the inestimably valuable Fangraphs .) AL Hitter of the Fortnight…
Working Some Trades
This post sprung from a chain of emails that started with our good friend, Mulhearn, emailing me the following: "What was more impress last night. Dice-K pitching 3 hit ball with no walkers, or the Celtics destroying…
Opening Day Channel Surfing
The following consists of a few rambling observations while flipping through the MLB package on Timer Warner Cable in Manhattan. What can be said about Albert Pujols? He starts the year with four hits and two homeruns.…
Rotisserie Pillars
Anticipation for the new season is abundant. As the creative juices of the ol' blog percolate on the hot stove, we should have a few blog posts in the next several days. This is just a collection of quick notes to, as…
BAseball Reality Tour - Animal Style
First, let's get this awkwardness out of the way... The ol' blog has been silent for, gasp, more than a month. I am sorry to the gaggles of brilliant readers who've been waiting and waiting and waiting. Still, my…
Future Stars & Busts
This will be brief. Late last night, I was watching the Blue Jays/Mariners game and rooting for Marc Rzepczynski, who was starting for our fantasy team last night. A few thoughts came to mind that I needed to share with…
All Star Ballots
A few weeks ago, I started a draft for a column entitled "Appreciating Lincecum" . After writing out some thoughts on that subject, I tried to build an All Appreciation Team from players around major league baseball.…
Monthly Predictions, May 1
We thought it could be fun to do a monthly revisit of our season predictions. (Not to mention that gimmicks like these are some of the easier ways to get columns started.) For the record, we will stick with our Opening…
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