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One Night Only: Previews for Weekend of May 20th


Scholarship!

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. White-hot previews for six games, including examinations of the Ohio Cup, the Bay Bridge Series, and the (recently neologismed) Puke Cup.

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of this weekend’s games.

3. Big-time gravitas.

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FanGraphs Audio: Podcast in an Emergency

Episode Seventy-Five
In which the panel is in a state of emergency — and also Canada.

Headlines
Jose Bautista — Marveled At, Perpetually!
Shaun Marcum and Chris Narveson — Marveled At, Just This Once!
Various Broadcasters — Considered Haphazardly!

Featuring
Dave Cameron, Full-Time Employee
Matt Klaassen, Child-Haver
Jackie Moore, Man About Across Town

Finally, you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or other feeder things.

Audio on the flip-flop. (Approximately 50 min play time.)

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 18th


Prospect Danny Duffy, making his major-league debut tonight, has done a lot of work with exhaling.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for two games: prospect Danny Duffy’s debut and prospect Julio Teheran’s second-ever start.

2. Brief, but no less charming, previews for three other games: Colorado at Philadelphia, Tampa Bay at Toronto, and Chicago (NL) at Florida.

3. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games (using the highly experimental and dangerous pitcher-heavy method discussed recently).

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 17th


Guess the amount of percent that Roy Oswalt is planning to give this evening.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: Chicago (NL) at Cincinnati, Philadelphia at St. Louis, and San Diego at Arizona.

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games (using the highly experimental and dangerous pitcher-heavy method discussed recently).

3. Plops.

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 16th


Play-by-play announcer Sean McDonough was an original member of NKOTB.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: New York (AL) at Tampa Bay, Cliff Lee at St. Louis, and the world-beating Cleveland Indians at the world-beating Kansas City Royals.

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games (using the experimental pitcher-heavy method discussed last time).

3. All of the synonyms for amazing.

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One Night Only: Previews for Weekend of May 13th


Josh Collmenter, sans excellent mustache, makes his first major-league start on Saturday.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for five! five! five! weekend games — likely including your favorite team!

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of this weekend’s games.

3. A programming note, as follows:

As a sort of experiment, I’ve weighted the NERD score for each game’s probable starters three times as much as the corresponding team score when calculating the NERD Game Scores for this weekend’s games. Accordingly, for each game, you’ll see the new, pitcher-heavy Game Score in the normal place and then, in the right-most column, on top, what the score would usually be and then, just below that, the difference between the pitcher-heavy and usual-type of score.

Like so:

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 12th


Justin Masterson, James Shields, and Bud Norris enjoy a boating holiday.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for two games: Tampa Bay at Cleveland and Arizona at San Francisco.

2. Brief, but still entirely illuminating, comments on three more games: Los Angeles (NL) at Pittsburgh, Washington at Atlanta, and St. Louis at Chicago (NL).

3. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 11th


You’ll have to go through Tyler Chatwood to see Peavy’s debut tonight.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, Jake Peavy’s Debut™, Philadelphia at Florida Marlins.

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.

3. All manner of garment-rending.

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FanGraphs Audio: Ben Badler of Baseball America

Episode Seventy-Four
In which the guest is Badler to all of his bones.

Headlines
Badler’s Path to BA — Recounted!
Prospects Like Julio Teheran and Tim Beckham — Observed!
The International Signing Period — Demystified!

Featuring
Ben Badler, Baseball America

Finally, you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or other feeder things.

Audio on the flip-flop. (Approximately 50 min play time.)

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 10th


An accurate portrait of life at FanGraphs Headquarters.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, Halladay at Johnson, and Arizona at San Francisco.

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.

3. All the dreams of all the beautiful children.

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