2025 MLB Season Review: New York Yankees
Ryan Borkowsky assesses the Yankees’ 2025 season, which showed great promise but ended in disappointment. Where do they go from here?
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The Mysterious Struggles of Devin Williams
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Max Kranick: Future Bullpen Ace?
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The Most Dominant Sliders of 2024: A Look Through Slider Run Value
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2025 MLB Season Preview: New York Mets
Daniel Buckholz writes about the 2025 Mets, a team looking to contend in the NL after adding Juan Soto in the offseason.
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2025 MLB Season Preview: Washington Nationals
Christopher Putnam writes on the exciting 2025 Nationals. What can they expect from their youth movement this year?
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2025 MLB Season Preview: Detroit Tigers
Devin Wiles previews the 2025 Tigers, who look to be on the ascent in the AL. Can they carry over their miracle run from last year?
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2025 MLB Season Preview: Milwaukee Brewers
Kaj Desch writes on the 2025 Brewers, a squad seeking to rebound from early postseason exits and make push through the dangerous NL.
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2025 MLB Season Preview: Chicago Cubs
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2025 MLB Season Preview: New York Yankees
Ryan Borkowsky writes about 2025 Yankees, who underwent a remaking after the conflagration of losing the World Series and Juan Soto in a span of weeks.
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2025 MLB Season Preview: Philadelphia Phillies
Josh Pomerantz previews the 2025 Phillies, who are poised to compete once again in an increasingly-competitive NL East. Will they finally get over the hump this year?
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2025 MLB Season Preview: San Francisco Giants
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M-SABR 2025 Season Predictions: Awards, Superlatives, and More
M-SABR convenes for the 2025 season to predict major award winners, Pennant and World Series winners, overrated teams, breakout players, dark horse World Series contenders, and more.
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The Curious Case of Jesús Sánchez: Power Without Production
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M-SABR All-Stars: MLB’s 2024 All-Clutch Team
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2024 MLB Season Review: Seattle Mariners
Nate Carlson reflects on the potential-filled yet frustrating 2024 Mariners, after a campaign where they once again barely missed out on the playoffs. How can they take the next step?
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2024 MLB Season Review: Chicago White Sox
Following their 121-loss season, Ryan Jafri writes on the disastrous 2024 Chicago White Sox and where the organization can go from here.
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Cody Bellinger’s High Peaks and Low Valleys: An Analysis and Profile of the Yankees’ Newest Acquisition
Ryan Borkowsky takes a look at newest Yankee Cody Bellinger’s ever-changing offensive numbers across his career, the trends that lie within the data, and his outlook for 2025.
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2024 MLB Season Review: Philadelphia Phillies
Josh Pomerantz outlines the star-studded 2024 Phillies, their disappointing end to a great season, and what the offseason might hold for the organization.
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2024 MLB Season Review: Arizona Diamondbacks
Chris Putnam writes on the high-powered 2024 Arizona Diamondbacks who came up just short of the playoffs following their World Series berth a year ago.
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2024 MLB Season Review: Kansas City Royals
John Ilyevsky details the unexpectedly stellar 2024 Kansas City Royals who broke an eight-year playoff drought.
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2024 MLB Season Review: Oakland Athletics
Mark Roman kicks off M-SABR’s 2024 season reviews with a discussion of the Athletics’ final season in Oakland.
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M-SABR’s 2024 MLB Predictions
As a club, we sat down and hashed out our individual predictions for the 2024 MLB season. This is the aggregate of our group’s thoughts, M-SABR’s first ever season prediction article.
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Breaking down the Pitch Clock: An Analysis of Baseball’s Big Rule Change
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M-SABR’s Prospect Ranking Model
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MLB’s Redeem Team and SWAPPPE – 2023 Gallardo Awards
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The 2023 MLB Yovani Gallardo Award
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NL Aluminum Slugger Award Winners – 2023 Gallardo Awards
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AL Aluminum Slugger Award Winners – 2023 Gallardo Awards
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NL Iron Pyrite Glove Award Winners – 2023 Gallardo Awards
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AL Iron Pyrite Glove Award Winners – 2023 Gallardo Awards
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Colt Keith: The Latest Addition to the Early Extension Trend
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An Evaluation of Cy Young Award Selection Using Machine Learning
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An Ode to Miguel Cabrera
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The 1976 Detroit Tigers; or, Learning to Love a Lost Season
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If You’re Not Cheating, You’re Not Trying: Data Analysis of the 2017 Houston Astros
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Promotion and Relegation in Today’s MLB – An OOTP 24 Experiment
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Oakland’s Love: Scenes From the Reverse Boycott
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What Would Realistic Expansion in Today’s MLB Look Like? – An OOTP 23 Experiment
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Revisiting the 2017 MLB Draft
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If Mike Trout Played His Entire Career in the Pecos League: An OOTP Experiment
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M-SABR All Stars: MLB’s 2022 All-BB% Team
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Promotion and Relegation in Today’s MLB – An OOTP 24 Experiment
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