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Fangraphs Spray Charts Are Here!
Baseball fans were given a late Hanukkah / early Christmas present today, when David Appelman announced that Fangraphs now has batted ball and fielded ball spray charts for the 2012 and 2013 seasons, courtesy of Inside…
Hunter Pence and the RBI
Entering the 2012 campaign, Hunter Pence had been around a 3 to 5 Wins Above Replacement guy, throughout his five year career. This season, Hunter Pence combined career lows in Batting Average, On Base and Slugging…
Freddie Freeman's Line Drives
Freddie Freeman 's rate stats this season are just a bit off. A .259 batting average and .313 on-base percentage pale to his rookie .282 and .342 rates. Aside from that minor blip, things are looking good for the…
Best and Worst, with Stats
It started this morning. Checking out a few things on leaderboards, I noticed that Jamie Moyer , a personal favorite, had an unsightly 1.75 WHIP. Yet, his BB/9 was a better than average 3.14. Naturally, his H/9 was…
Pujols Knows Futility
It's been well documented that Albert Pujols is struggling to adapt to the American League. Most of us know he has yet to hit a homerun. After a base on balls in the 8th inning of tonight's game, he's currently in an…
Quick Look at the Final Four
Just a few weeks ago, it was a widely believed that baseball's Final Four would include the Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies and a team the Phillies would defeat. After Chris Carpenter pitched himself into eastern Missouri…
Cubs WAR by Acquisition Type
Last Monday, Adam Darowski, of Beyond the Box Score , tweeted the Baseball-Reference WAR data of Red Sox players acquired via Free Agency. Most valuable Red Sox (B-R WAR) who were acquired as FAs: Ortiz (2.3 WAR),…
3-Pitch Stars, NL Edition
We're looking at Fangraphs's remarkable pitch value data today in an effort to find pitchers with the highest cumulative score of their three best pitches. Although we're still in the midsts of small sample size…
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…
In Brief: NL Playoff Preview
We're going a different route with this than we did with the AL Playoff Preview, which took parts one , two , and three . That took us three weeks to complete, this going to be quick. Readers, please take it for what…
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