The purpose of this post is to announce the availability — literally starting this exact minute — of tickets to a sabermetrics-themed event to be hosted by the Staten Island Yankees on June 19. The event will feature a number of your favorite baseball writers and also Dave Cameron.
From the club’s expertly composed press release:
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: Presidential brawl?
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: ARRGGH, someone’s gotta remind me before we start chat! lol
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: If you’re the Mets, how concerned are you with Harvey?
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: Somewhere between mild and moderate.
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: Drew Smyly: what kind of stats does he end the year with?
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: 3.20ish ERA?
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Episode 648
Emma Baccellieri is a writer for FanGraphs and Baseball Prospectus — as well as a contributor (past and/or present) to the McClatchy family of papers, the Charlotte Observer, and the Chronicle of Duke University. She’s also the guest on this edition of FanGraphs Audio.
This episode of the program is sponsored by SeatGeek, which site removes both the work and also the hassle from the process of shopping for tickets.
Don’t hesitate to direct pod-related correspondence to @cistulli on Twitter.
You can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or other feeder things.
Audio after the jump. (Approximately 59 min play time.)
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The Fringe Five is a weekly regular-season exercise, introduced a few years ago by the present author, wherein that same author utilizes regressed stats, scouting reports, and also his own fallible intuition to identify and/or continue monitoring the most compelling fringe prospects in all of baseball.
Central to the exercise, of course, is a definition of the word fringe, a term which possesses different connotations for different sorts of readers. For the purposes of the column this year, a fringe prospect (and therefore one eligible for inclusion in the Five) is any rookie-eligible player at High-A or above who (a) received a future value grade of 45 or less from lead prospect analyst Dan Farnsworth during the course of his organizational lists and who (b) was omitted from the preseason prospect lists produced by Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, and John Sickels, and also who (c) is currently absent from a major-league roster. Players appearing on an updated prospect list or, otherwise, selected in the first round of the current season’s amateur draft will also be excluded from eligibility.
Episode 647
Dave Cameron is the managing editor of FanGraphs. During this edition of FanGraphs Audio he (a) discusses where Bryce Harper currently resides on a scale of zero to Mike Trout, (b) examines what Byron Buxton’s troubles may or may not reveal about aggressive promotions, and (c) utilizes a Food Metaphor to characterize the St. Louis Cardinals’ track record of minor-league development.
This episode of the program is sponsored by SeatGeek, which site removes both the work and also the hassle from the process of shopping for tickets.
Don’t hesitate to direct pod-related correspondence to @cistulli on Twitter.
You can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or other feeder things.
Audio after the jump. (Approximately 43 min play time.)
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: *cough*
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: Don’t worry, I won’t be inserting my coughs.
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: On a scale from “blow it up and start over” to ” they’ll figure it out and be a strength”, how concerned should Dodgers fans be about me and my ‘pen mates?
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: It’s a little late to blow it up. And they *still* have the #3 bullpen in the RoS projections – even if you apply some kind of suck factor and say they’re “only” 10th or something, how would they build a better bullpen than the #10 on April 18th?
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: Any idea why Tulo has bad offensive numbers since he got the jays?
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: 2015 wans’t alarmingly worse given the sample size
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Episode 646
Jeff Sullivan is a senior editor at FanGraphs. He’s also the wholly endangered guest on this edition of FanGraphs Audio.
This episode of the program is sponsored by SeatGeek, which site removes both the work and also the hassle from the process of shopping for tickets.
Don’t hesitate to direct pod-related correspondence to @cistulli on Twitter.
You can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or other feeder things.
Audio after the jump. (Approximately 1 hr 19 min play time.)
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The Fringe Five is a weekly regular-season exercise, introduced a few years ago by the present author, wherein that same author utilizes regressed stats, scouting reports, and also his own fallible intuition to identify and/or continue monitoring the most compelling fringe prospects in all of baseball.
Central to the exercise, of course, is a definition of the word fringe, a term which possesses different connotations for different sorts of readers. For the purposes of the column this year, a fringe prospect (and therefore one eligible for inclusion in the Five) is any rookie-eligible player at High-A or above who (a) received a future value grade of 45 or less from lead prospect analyst Dan Farnsworth during the course of his organizational lists and who (b) was omitted from the preseason prospect lists produced by Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, and John Sickels, and also who (c) is currently absent from a major-league roster. Players appearing on an updated prospect list or, otherwise, selected in the first round of the current season’s amateur draft will also be excluded from eligibility.
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: I have arrived to destroy your way of life.
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: OBP League would you do a $4 Story for a $7 CMart?
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: I don’t think so – even if he comes down to earth a bit (which he will), he’s got firm possession of a Coors Field starting position.
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: Is a 100r 80rbi season a possibility with Joe Panik? With Pagan in the 9 hole, he seems to be in a pretty ideal spot for both R and RBI.
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: That’s a bit aggressive – even a Giants team leading the league in runs won’t have a ton of runs to give out given the park
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: They have like 1 or 2 100-run seasons since Bonds, IIRC
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Episode 645
Dave Cameron is both (a) the managing editor of FanGraphs and (b) the guest on this particular edition of FanGraphs Audio, during which edition he discusses the benefits and risks of pulling the ball — and, in particular, how that tension relates to Boston’s Mookie Betts — and also the new freely available stream of batted-ball data being provided this year by Statcast.
This episode of the program is sponsored by SeatGeek, which site removes both the work and also the hassle from the process of shopping for tickets.
Don’t hesitate to direct pod-related correspondence to @cistulli on Twitter.
You can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or other feeder things.
Audio after the jump. (Approximately 39 min play time.)
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