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Well let’s start by looking at the top WARs of AL players. Note that there are two different commonly used ways of calculating WAR, that are scaled to be a similar size, but can produce quite different answers for individuals. One of these ways comes from Baseball-Reference.com, and it...
Emmanuel Clase, Guardians (2.2) – The WAR calculation isn’t always kind to Closers but at age 23, he’s already a force in the bullpen. How about 24 Saves and a 1.29 ERA? Cole Irvin, Athletics (2.1) – Had 10 Wins and didn’t miss a start. The K rate is somewhat suspect but...
Like Dave, the way I'm calculating pace results in a 22.4-second difference between pitches, which is slightly slower than the FanGraphs calculation. (FanGraphs' method excludes pickoffs, which I'm not sure I agree with. I've always felt that a pitcher is pitching slowly if he throws to...
before their competitors' opinions of players begin to significantly shift, or they're too unrealistic in gauging the market for such candidates. Such miscalculations can turn off a prospective trade partner, often to the point that there's no future hope of successfully...
and allowed twice as many hits of all kinds--would, it seems to me (I haven't tried to do the whole calculation), allow twice as many runs as the average. That's a very bad team--I don't think there has ever been a major league team that bad--but it isn't an infinitely bad...
Simply put, Scherzer’s contract with the Nationals has beenthe best free-agent pitcher contract for the money. According to FanGraphs’ $/WAR calculation, Scherzer has already been worthmorethan the $210 million he signed for, with two years left on the deal. Not just more, but $50.9 mil...
A little like watching an episode ofFamily Guy. If you get the reference, you might smile for a moment, but there’s nothing actually to any of this save for one glorious sequence in the middle. Avengers: Infinity War As good as it could possibly be, I suppose. But really, who gives...
The reference to G-mail and NSA triggered a realization: Who among us is silly enough to believe that Google, in their quest to know all of the web, doesn’t have a couple thousand boxes loaded up with tails. There is no doubt in my feeble mind that the big G has indexed the entir...
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