Carlos Gonzalez
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Kung Fu Panda and Red Sox Angst
Photo by Brandon Wade / AP Unclogging our writer's block... On twitter this Sunday afternoon, the legendary Michael Schur bemoaned how much the Red Sox owe Pablo Sandoval : “Don't worry, Sox fans -- we only have to pay…
50 Ways to Pick an All-Star Team
Major League Baseball released the All Star Ballots obscenely early this year, about 3 weeks into the season. Below is a link from April 24th. @ mlbonfox @ allstargame it's too early — Bobby Aguilera (@BobbyAguilera)…
Best Hitters Against Pitch Type
An occasional glance at a few numbers on Fangraphs can quickly freshen up your bar stool baseball talk tremendously. Case in point, let's look at the best hitters against certain pitch types. For a larger sample size,…
Triple-Slash Triple Crown Winners
The last time someone won the Triple Crown was over forty years ago, when Carl Yastrzemski did it for the Boston Red Sox in 1967 with a .326 average, 44 Homeruns, and 121 RBI. A year earlier, Frank Robinson had just won…
Foreshadowing: a Riddle
Alright, let's be quick. This has nothing to do with our Baseball Managerial Trees post, which has hit a bit of a wall. I guess it's more of a steep incline. It's not wall, but it's a very big research project, and…
MLB Team Snapshots
The Beautiful Mind level insanity around the AL Previews formula I've been tinkering with and referred to in these two posts should (hopefully) be done today. In an effort to not let the homework slow down our…
Player of the Fortnight vol. 4
Sunday morning is a good a time as any to paraphrase. A wise baseball man once said, "Just give me their stats for the last two weeks, and that'll tell me who's going good," or something to that effect. Thinking of that…
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