Each week, we publish north of 100 posts on our various blogs. With this post, we hope to highlight 10 to 15 of them. You can read more on it here. The links below are color coded — green for FanGraphs, brown for RotoGraphs, dark red for The Hardball Times and blue for Community Research.
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| 9:37 |
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Who will win the ALCS?
Astros (22.6% | 56 votes)
Yankees (77.3% | 191 votes)
Total Votes: 247
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| 9:37 |
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Who will win the NLCS?
Cubs (5.1% | 12 votes)
Dodgers (94.8% | 223 votes)
Total Votes: 235
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| 9:37 |
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Will the Dodgers sweep tonight?
Yes (52.1% | 124 votes)
No (29.8% | 71 votes)
Maybe! (18.0% | 43 votes)
Total Votes: 238
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| 9:01 |
: Hi everybody!
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| 9:01 |
: The single-season record for pitcher appearances is Mike Marshall with 106. That’s pretty impressive, but do you think Carl Edwards Jr. will break it in August or in September next year?
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| 9:02 |
: I don’t think that Toothpick Edwards’ appendages will stay together for that many appearances in such a short timespan.
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The narrative of this postseason has been the ubiquity of the reliever, the increased tendency of teams to use their bullpens early and often. To a certain extent, that narrative is grounded in reality. We saw it right away in the American League Wild Card Game, for example, when the Yankees’ Luis Severino recorded only a single out and then a quartet of New York relievers pitched what was essentially an impromptu bullpen game. Combine that with the paltry two innings that Ervin Santana procured for the Twins and just 13.5% of the innings in that game were completed by starting pitchers.
The next night played out similarly, as Jon Gray and Zack Greinke survived just five half-innings between them, or 29.4% of the game’s total.
So, yes, relief pitchers have played a major role in the postseason. The use of bullpens, however, might not represent the greatest break from tradition. To quote a powerful sorcerer, things aren’t always what they seem.
Each week, we publish north of 100 posts on our various blogs. With this post, we hope to highlight 10 to 15 of them. You can read more on it here. The links below are color coded — green for FanGraphs, brown for RotoGraphs, dark red for The Hardball Times and blue for Community Research.
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| 4:04 |
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Will the Nationals-Cubs game be over by the time the chat starts?
Yes, these games have moved fast (0.7% | 1 vote)
No, it’s going to be raining, stupid (93.9% | 125 votes)
Maybe! (5.2% | 7 votes)
Total Votes: 133
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| 4:05 |
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Will the Nationals be eliminated tonight?
Yes (10.1% | 13 votes)
No (89.8% | 115 votes)
Total Votes: 128
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| 4:07 |
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What do you think would be the most entertaining World Series?
Houston vs. Los Angeles (25.4% | 52 votes)
Houston vs. Chicago (2.4% | 5 votes)
Houston vs. Washington (2.9% | 6 votes)
Cleveland vs. Los Angeles (19.6% | 40 votes)
Cleveland vs. Chicago (9.3% | 19 votes)
Cleveland vs. Washington (5.8% | 12 votes)
New York vs. Los Angeles (21.5% | 44 votes)
New York vs. Chicago (7.8% | 16 votes)
New York vs. Washington (2.9% | 6 votes)
I can’t decide! (1.9% | 4 votes)
Total Votes: 204
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| 9:01 |
: Hi everybody!
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| 9:02 |
: 4th option to the 1st question: no, this is going to be the game that ends with a final score of 15-14 where each team has 30+ hits and takes 5+ hours to play
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| 9:02 |
: It might be! But tomorrow. Stupid rian.
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| 1:02 |
: Hi everybody!
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| 1:03 |
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Who is going to be eliminated today?
Red Sox (16.6% | 32 votes)
Yankees (6.2% | 12 votes)
Diamondbacks (13.5% | 26 votes)
All of them (19.7% | 38 votes)
Two of them (36.9% | 71 votes)
None of them! (6.7% | 13 votes)
Total Votes: 192
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| 1:04 |
: Any way to guage whether a hitter’s splits or a pitcher’s splits are more important? Thinking of Edwards vs Harper … CJ is better against lefty hitters than any of the actual lefty pitchers in the Cubs pen — but Harper hits righties better. Whose splits matter more?
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| 1:04 |
: I’d be surprised if Edwards’ splits against lefties was indicative of his true talent level.
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| 1:04 |
: I LOVE BASEBALL
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| 1:05 |
: Me too, Brandon!
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Each week, we publish north of 100 posts on our various blogs. With this post, we hope to highlight 10 to 15 of them. You can read more on it here. The links below are color coded — green for FanGraphs, brown for RotoGraphs, dark red for The Hardball Times and blue for Community Research.
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| 3:58 |
: Hi everyone!
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| 3:58 |
: I have never heard of Clay Walker.
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| 3:59 |
: we cant watch the game?
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| 4:00 |
: Sorry if you can’t watch the game. Hopefully everyone can find a way, through legals means or otherwise.
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| 4:00 |
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Who wins today?
Red Sox (27.3% | 50 votes)
Astros (72.6% | 133 votes)
Total Votes: 183
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| 4:00 |
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Who are you *rooting* for?
Red Sox (24.0% | 46 votes)
Astros (53.9% | 103 votes)
Both (3.1% | 6 votes)
Neither (18.8% | 36 votes)
Total Votes: 191
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This season, 144 players reached the 502-plate-appearance threshold necessary to qualify for the batting title. On the opposite end of the spectrum, there were 190 position players who tallied between one and 99 PA for the season. In between, there were 291 position players. Some of these were starters who simply missed time due to injury (Bryce Harper, for example) or the nature of their position (Salvador Perez) or because they weren’t major leaguers yet at the start of the season (Paul DeJong), but some of them are what we’d call true part-time players. At this time of year, we generally focus on the very best players. It’s awards season, after all. Part-time players get less shine. So let’s focus on them today, at the very least.
I’ve done this exercise once before, back in 2012. Now, as then, I’ve parsed the list to give us a clear picture of who is really a part-time player. My favorite tool for this exercise is the “Lineups and Defense” pages on Baseball-Reference. When they redesigned the website recently (I think it was recently? Maybe it was last year? I don’t know, I don’t even remember what I had for dinner on Thursday.) I experienced a few panicky minutes when I couldn’t find the pages, but fortunately they’re still there. Phew.
Each week, we publish north of 100 posts on our various blogs. With this post, we hope to highlight 10 to 15 of them. You can read more on it here. The links below are color coded — green for FanGraphs, brown for RotoGraphs, dark red for The Hardball Times and blue for Community Research.
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