The Best of FanGraphs: May 11-15, 2015

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, orange for TechGraphs and blue for Community Research.

MONDAY
The Very Simple Explanation for the Better Michael Pineda by Jeff Sullivan
“How does one measure, or even observe, command?” is a question Sullivan attempts to answer with some difficulty.

TUESDAY
Let’s Think About a Troy Tulowitzki Trade by Dave Cameron
Boston or New York or New York are Colorado’s most logical trade partners.

Team and Player Shift Information by Jeff Zimmerman
No analysis, by Zimmerman’s own admission, but the data is worthy of inspection.

WEDNESDAY
An Expansion on xISO, Plus 10 Noteworthy Names by Alex Chamberlain
Expected isolated-power numbers derived from pull, hard-hit, and fly-ball rates.

Justin Turner, Marlon Byrd, and an Education in Hitting by Eno Sarris
The student becomes the teacher, but also remains a student, too. So more like a tutor, probably, is what you’d call him.

The Physics of Radar Guns by David Kagan
In which one learns, if nothing else, that the same enterprising American was more or less responsible for diamond dry, the batting cage, and the radar gun.

THURSDAY
Corey Kluber Rides the High Strike into History by Owen Watson
Observe as Corey Kluber regresses like a beautiful spring flower, were beautiful spring flowers capable of regressing.

HitTrax System Makes Batting Practice Perfect by Bryan Cole
It runs on an effing engine made of physics.

FRIDAY
By Request: Mike Trout Facts! by Well-Beered Englishman
Even if you didn’t explicitly request it, you probably still requested it in your heart.

MLBPA Should Seek a Higher Minimum Salary by Craig Edwards
A proposal even more modest than eating poor Irish children.

Modeling Salary Arbitration: Stat Components by Chamberlain and Dolinar
This would appear in a peer-reviewed journal were the authors to have peers.

Saber Seminar Tickets Now on Sale by Dave Cameron
It’s August 22nd-23rd in Boston, MA, and literally all proceeds benefit the destruction of cancer by means of science.

The Freshmen Report: Lobstein, Sanchez, Smith, Tomas by Marc Hulet
Hulet examines a collection of players who are no longer prospects, per se, but also not entirely established regulars, either.