Yu Darvish
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3-Year Batting, Pitching and Fielding Stats
Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox on winning their third World Series in ten years. Narrative and praise can be bestowed upon any player, manager, coach, or executive, for their success the past decade. Many in the…
Best and Worst of MLB's First Half
The Major League Baseball All-Star break is upon us. It's a good time to take a deep dive into a specific analysis because first-half stats are set for a few days. We'll likely get into something this afternoon that…
Pitching Under the Radar in 2012
Armed with a 97 mph fastball, Pedro Strop achieved the 2nd highest Groundball rate and 3rd highest GB/FB rate ratio among 263 pitchers who threw over 1,000 pitches in 2012. His fortunate-to-lucky 83.2% LOB% and .275…
First Half MLB Awards
It's the All-Star Break. Time to see how our MLB Awards ballots would look if voting on performances of the first half. AL Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Award 1. Mike Trout , Angels Trout has many reasons to smile…
Evaluating the Final Vote
All Star Game 2012 Final Vote time is upon us ( ballot here ). The only politics we like to discuss are voting for baseball (Hall of Fame, Gold Gloves, etc., not the ESPY's) and entertainment awards (Oscars and Golden…
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…
Obsessed with Yu
For Cubs fans, the 2012 Hot Stove season began about two years ago. It's actually been a bit more of the 2009-2012 hot stove season for the starving franchise. Many of us have been fixated on Japanese standout Yu…
Prepping the Stove
Cubs fans have basically been stuck in Hot Stove forever, having not gone to the World Series in the past sixty-five years. As current fans have likely noticed, the team hasn't contended since being swept out of the…
Masato Watanabe Hit an Inside-the-Park Homerun off Yu Darvish Today
Once again, thank you to Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker for keeping us informed about Japanese baseball. Regular readers of this space know we are enamored with Yu Darvish. We hope the Cubs eschew the desire to take…
Darvish vs. Murton 2011
Nothing says "Saturday Night" like two-week old video from a Japanese baseball game. The following shows the promising Yu Darvish facing the established Matt Murton .
Top 100 MLB Free Agents
About a month ago, we listed the Top Free Agents by position . Our opinions haven't changed much in the past month, but here we are going to try and rank the whole group. Go grab a drink and settle in, here we go... No.…
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