Interest in the Trade Deadline, Visualized by Sam Fuld

Yesterday, FanGraphs set some traffic records that we might not break for a very long time. It turns out that having like 15 trades go down in the span of six hours is good business for a site that specializes in transaction analysis. Who knew, right?

But maybe the most fun thing wasn’t that David Price and Jon Lester generated a lot of interest, because that was always going to happen, but that the activity allowed a guy like Sam Fuld to take the spotlight for a little while. How much did people care about Sam Fuld yesterday compared to prior days? Well, here’s a graph of the page views for his player page this year.

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Sam Fuld, this is what it looks like to be internet famous for a day.





Dave is the Managing Editor of FanGraphs.

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Jimmy
9 years ago

Are player activity pages for all players publicly available?

chuckb
9 years ago
Reply to  Jimmy

There needs to be a page for “Player Page Views above Replacement”.

I’m sure Trout would be the leader there, too.

Phillies' Front Officemember
9 years ago
Reply to  chuckb

Dunno about that. It’ll be tough to dethrone Jack “Big Natural Boobs” McCarthy

Johan Santa
9 years ago
Reply to  chuckb

Some minor leaguer is going to change his name to “Mike Trou” and dethrone him by hijacking all his article links. Just you wait!

Clayton Kersh
9 years ago
Reply to  Johan Santa

That’s a great idea!