Announcing the FanGraphs Weekly Mailbag!

Hello, all of you FanGraphs readers! Are you a FanGraphs Member? Are you looking for something fresh to read on Saturday mornings? Do you have any burning baseball questions for us, but don’t quite know where to ask them? Well, then we’ve got great news for you.

FanGraphs is launching a weekly mailbag, curated by me, that will run on the website every Saturday morning. Anyone can submit a question, but the piece answering them will only be available to FanGraphs Members.

So how is this going to work? Send any and all of your questions — about baseball, baseball writing, or whatever else you might be interested in having us answer — to me via email at mailbag@fangraphs.com, and each week, I’ll pick a few that we’ll answer in that Saturday’s mailbag. That’s right, I said we, because my FanGraphs colleagues will be helping me out. If you have a Hall of Fame question, I’ll probably relay it to Jay Jaffe. We’ve got Eric Longenhagen for prospect inquiries, and Dan Szymborski if we need to consult the ol’ ZiPS machine — the list goes on! We’ll do our best to answer as many questions as possible each week, but we won’t be able to get to them all. The ideal mailbag question is something that requires a deeper dive than we can tackle in our various chats, but is not so expansive that it warrants an entire article.

These mailbags are going to be informative, but they’re also meant to be a fun way to start your weekend. We’ll keep things light and conversational. The mailbags won’t be as loose as an AMA, but pretty much any topic is fair game (within reason, of course). If you’ve always wanted to ask Michael Baumann about submarines or how the heck he comes up with his headlines, now’s your chance! More than anything, we want our mailbags to be a way to connect with our Members and talk about baseball.

If you aren’t yet a Member and want to join the conversation, you can sign up for a Membership here. Of course, there are plenty of other reasons to become a FanGraphs Member. In addition to supporting our site and staff, Membership comes with ad-free browsing, one-click data exports, and unlimited FanGraphs and RotoGraphs articles. It has also allowed us to bring you greater site customization; indeed, customization has become a key tenet of Membership. We don’t want to force you to see baseball or FanGraphs the way we do. We want to let you choose what you want to see and how you want to see it, from flipping the site into Dark or Classic mode, to removing photos from the home page, to setting up your own player page dashboards and custom reports and leaderboards. Our Members also get access to Steamer platoon, context neutral, and percentile projections, as well as historical Steamer, ZiPS, and ATC projections. Oh, and there’s FanGraphs Walk-Off! That’s the personalized year-end review of your use of the site that all the cool baseball people were talking about online back in December. Do you really want to miss out on that? And now we’re adding a weekly mailbag column to all the other great Membership features we offer.

We’re aiming to have the first mailbag run on Saturday, June 7, so now’s the time to start sending in your questions. Once again, the email is mailbag@fangraphs.com. Let’s have some fun!