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Adam Eaton: Bucking the Short-Dude Power Conundrum
It’s a question I’ve asked myself a lot recently: Are we ready to live in a world where Adam Eaton hits dingers? Everything we’ve known to be true about Eaton says that, while he certainly has a bevy...
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Understanding, Appreciating Dallas Keuchel’s Defensive Prowess
For the next five seconds, I want you to close your eyes and think about Dallas Keuchel. Seriously. I mean, really think. Now, what things, specifically, came to mind? Physically, perhaps you...
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Gregory Polanco and the Symptoms of an Inevitable Breakout
It’s fairly well understood, at this point, that nothing in baseball is guaranteed. It’s also fairly well understood that nothing in life is guaranteed (well, other than death, taxes, etc…). Still,...
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Previewing 2016’s Best Fastballs with Saber-Scout Pitch f/x
Around this time last season, I wrote about the most untouchable pitches in baseball throughout 2014. I don’t usually like to toot my own horn around these parts, but I will today, because I had a...
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Analyzing the Early Stolen Base Drought
The 2016 season is all of four days old, which means everything we’ve witnessed up to this point can mostly be chalked up to noise and random variance. Small samples, after all, can be pretty...
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The Mechanics of Jean Segura’s Monster Start
At some point, we’re going to have to acknowledge what Jean Segura is doing. I realize now might not be the most appropriate time, since we’re less than a week into the season, and 98% of the year is...
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The Rays Rotation has a New Philosophy
Organizationally, the Rays always seem to have a knack for doing things a bit differently. Some of it might boil down to necessity, given Tampa’s small market size and comparably small payroll to the...
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Cutting to the Chase on David Price’s Slow(ish) Start
David Price might be just seven starts into his record-breaking, bank-account-stuffing $217 million contract with the Red Sox, but already we’re starting to hear grumbles out east that the 30-year-old...
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Why Aren’t Teams Shifting Daniel Murphy?
Daniel Murphy is one of the best hitters in baseball this season. You know it. I know it. Murphy knows it. The Nationals, who signed him to what now looks like a historic bargain of a three-year,...
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Examining Andrew McCutchen’s Approach Issues
The last month has not been particularly kind to the Pirates’ postseason conquest, and the same can be accurately said of the man patrolling center field for the Buccos on a nightly basis: Andrew...
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