The Best of FanGraphs: August 4 – August 8, 2014

by
August 9, 2014

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, purple for NotGraphs, dark red for The Hardball Times and blue for Community.

MONDAY
An Attempt to Find the Market Price for Wins in July, by Dave Cameron
It’s hard to have enough data, but Dave has some interesting conclusions nonetheless. If only there were more trades…

Four Widely Available Speedsters For Stretch Run, by Mike Podhorzer
It’s time to start working around the edges.

A Professor and a Protagonist, by Patrick Dubuque
Before there was Jim Bouton, there was Jim Brosnan.

TUESDAY
Yangervis Solarte or Javier Baez?, by Eno Sarris
One of these things is not like the other, but perhaps the one you want on your redraft team is not so obvious.

Three Widely Available Power Sources For Stretch Run, by Mike Podhorzer
Mike also has you covered if you need that late-season power surge.

WEDNESDAY
Adam Dunn as a Pitcher, by August Fagerstrom
There hasn’t been anything this big since Poochie.

You Aren't a FanGraphs Member
It looks like you aren't yet a FanGraphs Member (or aren't logged in). We aren't mad, just disappointed.
We get it. You want to read this article. But before we let you get back to it, we'd like to point out a few of the good reasons why you should become a Member.
1. Ad Free viewing! We won't bug you with this ad, or any other.
2. Unlimited articles! Non-Members only get to read 10 free articles a month. Members never get cut off.
3. Dark mode and Classic mode!
4. Custom player page dashboards! Choose the player cards you want, in the order you want them.
5. One-click data exports! Export our projections and leaderboards for your personal projects.
6. Remove the photos on the home page! (Honestly, this doesn't sound so great to us, but some people wanted it, and we like to give our Members what they want.)
7. Even more Steamer projections! We have handedness, percentile, and context neutral projections available for Members only.
8. Get FanGraphs Walk-Off, a customized year end review! Find out exactly how you used FanGraphs this year, and how that compares to other Members. Don't be a victim of FOMO.
9. A weekly mailbag column, exclusively for Members.
10. Help support FanGraphs and our entire staff! Our Members provide us with critical resources to improve the site and deliver new features!
We hope you'll consider a Membership today, for yourself or as a gift! And we realize this has been an awfully long sales pitch, so we've also removed all the other ads in this article. We didn't want to overdo it.

A Point in Defense of Tony La Russa, by Jeff Sullivan
The Diamondbacks may not be innocent, but they also may not be the most guilty.

Spam Baseball Cards, by Craig Robinson
I once had dinner with Ricky Wardrobe.

Matt Harvey is Here to Pull You out of Your Funk, by David G. Temple
The elbow IS basically the knee of the arm!

Leadoff Rating 2.0, by Brad Oremland
It’s good to try to look at things in a new light, and Brad has done that here.

THURSDAY
Derek Jeter: A Simple Approach to Hitting, by David Laurila
Keep it simple.

Brandon McCarthy: Tinkering or Regression, by Drew Fairservice
We might not know if Brandon McCarthy got better because he joined the Yankees or not, but we do know that FanGraphs got better when Drew came on board. This was Drew’s debut with the site, and he also had a piece up on Friday about Pablo Sandoval.

Three Hot Outfielders You Might Have Given Up On, by Scott Spratt
Not only is it the time of the season when we need to look for new sources of fantasy production, it’s also time to work back on old sources to see if anything has changed. Because sometimes, things done changed.

How Gambling Could Improve Baseball, by Patrick Dubuque
Let’s make this game really interesting.

FRIDAY
Adam Jones’ Historical Plate Discipline Peers, by Matt Klaassen
It’s not easy to find them, but Matt cobbles together a list.





 

Paul Swydan used to be the managing editor of The Hardball Times, a writer and editor for FanGraphs and a writer for Boston.com and The Boston Globe. Now, he owns The Silver Unicorn Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Acton, Mass. Follow him on Twitter @Swydan. Follow the store @SilUnicornActon.

2 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Luke
11 years ago

I would be interested in getting just this post as an email once a week. Thoughts?

1