The Best of FanGraphs: November 17 – November 21, 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, dark red for The Hardball Times, orange for TechGraphs and blue for Community Research.

MONDAY
The Fascinating Jason Heyward/Shelby Miller Swap, by Dave Cameron
Dave likes the trade for both teams.

Jason Heyward in St. Louis, by Eno Sarris
Another week, another big move with fantasy implications.

Marcell Ozuna: Top-30 Fantasy Outfielder, by Scott Strandberg
Scott was sold last year, and continues to be sold heading into 2015.

TUESDAY
Why Isn’t Jason Heyward a Center Fielder?, by Drew Fairservice
The Cardinals don’t need to play him in center, but they certainly could.

La Stella Trade Provides Clues to Valuation of Bonus Slots, by Carson Cistulli
Interesting observations, these.

WATCH: How Data Scientists are Mapping the NBA, by David G. Temple
Cool video with Kirk Goldsberry, and the book sounds very interesting as well.

WEDNESDAY
Let’s Design a Cole Hamels-to-Boston Trade, by Jeff Sullivan
Is Philadelphia’s star lefty really worth as much as Philadelphia thinks he is? Jeff broke down one significant reason why he may not be in a second post later in the day.

Yoan Moncada Is Affecting All of International Baseball, by Kiley McDaniel
Kiley continues to have this story covered from nearly all angles.

THURSDAY
Can The Braves Fix Shelby Miller?, by Eno Sarris
Check back in March.

Jorge Soler is the Safest Cubs Prospect, by Scott Spratt
The Cubs have a lot of studs. Scott makes his case for Soler as the one you should target on draft day.

Madison Bumgarner and Athletics for Athletes, by Jack Moore
Sometimes athletes need to just do their thing.

Maybe Cano Money Is Not Unreasonable for Heyward, by semperty
It will be interesting to see if Heyward gets a contract similar to the one proposed here. Dave took a look at this as well, too.

FRIDAY
Michael Saunders is a Box of Chocolates, by Michael Barr
You never know what you’re going to get, but Michael still wants to find out.

Taking a Closer Look at The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2015, by Paul Swydan
It was my pleasure to announce The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2015 for sale on Wednesday at THT Live, and today, I thought it would be fun to break out a few excerpts from the Annual as well.