The Mets have not finished above .500 since 2008, and have struggled to get out of fourth place for a few years. So how can a team like this be the best team in the majors? Well for starters, their organization has players and prospects with potentials higher than the sky. Of course, just because they have potential does not mean that they will produce as they are expected, but there is a good possibility…
Spring Training is entertaining for many reasons: the media is always hyping up a team that is struggling or playing well, the competition level between teams is low, but inside a team is high; and there are always exciting players that have no shot at…
There were high hopes for this offseason from the New York Mets and Sandy Alderson. We fans were promised that with several onerous contracts off the books – if you’re…
When the Atlanta Braves commit three errors in one inning, it better be pretty easy to score seven runs. Of course, having the game kept at 1-1 through the seventh…
In 2011, the National Football League endured a 130-day lockout when the NFL Players Association and the league couldn’t agree to terms on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Later that…
Yesterday morning my colleague Spencer Manners introduced a new fielding data set, Inside Edge Fielding, that was unveiled this week at FanGraphs. This new data breaks down each play a…
In 2012, Matt Harvey came up and announced his presence with authority. Last year Zack Wheeler came up, dominated the Braves and by the end of the year had established…
Evaluating defense has always been imperfect. Primitive statistics, such as number of errors or fielding percentage, were very flawed. Newer statistics — such as UZR and DRS — are better,…
I’ve been in the book production business now for over thirty years. In the summer of 1982, my first job after college was at Simon & Schuster in New York…
They don’t call it a New York minute for nothing. We’re all impatient and we want to get things done so we can move on to the next thing we’ve…
Six out of eight playoff teams–Boston, Tampa Bay, Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Los Angeles–all featured a top-10 OBP leadoff hitter and all made the playoffs. A 7th team represented…
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