The Best of FanGraphs: September 28-October 2, 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
Adrian Beltre on Hitting, by Eno Sarris
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string,” Beltre says without saying it.

On Ad-Driven Revenue and Tools of the Sports Fan, by David Temple
By clicking this link, FanGraphs earns probably $0.002.

Putting the Nationals Disappointment In Context, By Jeff Sullivan
Washington’s season was a huge bummer, but how huge of a bummer was it?

TUESDAY
The Change: V-Mart, Pablo, & Bounceback Leaderboards, by Eno Sarris
Victor Martinez recorded the largest single-season decline in the free-agency era.

WEDNESDAY
JABO: The Evolution of Mookie Betts, by Dave Cameron
The Red Sox second baseman used to be just a little single-celled organism.

What Zack Greinke Learned from Felix Hernandez Exactly, by Eno Sarris
Not the answer: how to Dougie.

THURSDAY
MASH Report (10/1/15), by Jeff Zimmermann
The four-to-six week estimate on Giancarlo Stanton’s recovery wasn’t ever likely.

My Hypothetical NL MVP Ballot, by Dave Cameron
Cameron’s title summarizes the post admirably.

Streamable Introduces Brand New Extension, by David Wiers
An easy method for producing looping video that’s better than GIFs.

tDIBS: A Look at Defense Independent Batting Statistics Using Publicly Available Data, by Ethan Bein, Max Goder-Reiser, and Eric Smiley
The enemy of the perfect defense-independent hitting model isn’t the good one.

FRIDAY
Daniel Norris and His 54-Pitch Inning, by Craig Edwards
Reason dictates that it’s probably too many pitches.

Jerad Eickhoff Closes Strong for Phillies, by Paul Sporer
Featuring full technicolor footage of Eickhoff’s curvepiece.