All about shoulder injuries like Michael Conforto’s

"During surgery, we fix everything that's damaged," Ahmad said. "If the capsule is torn, we fix the capsule. If the labrum is torn, we fix the labrum. If the shoulder is extremely loose in general, we will tighten everything up with the stitching." Following surgery, the player does not swing a bat for three months [...]

What History Can Tell Us About the Approaching Trade Deadline

Off the record, other front office members expounded on the role of familiarity. “Familiarity makes everything run more smoothly,” said one. “Sometimes that’s personal familiarity, and it’s often easier to start conversations or let something more open-ended develop casually if there’s enough of a relationship that there’s less formality. Sometimes that’s professional familiarity, and both [...]

What would switching to robot umps look — or sound — like?

But if the electronic strike zone ever became a real thing -- and I agree with the players and executives who think that’s it’s inevitable, and perhaps closer to being implemented than a lot of folks realize -- MLB and the players' association will be able to sort through a whole lot of interesting ways [...]

How The New York Mets Use Data And Analytics

The Mets’ patience in waiting for Granderson’s breakout was a result of more than just Collins’ faith that his perennially slow-starting power hitter would again heat up. Though Granderson’s classically outward-facing stats such as average, OPS and home runs were all abysmal after the season’s first month, his underlying advanced metrics showed good process. Granderson [...]