2018 Off-Season Preview: AL East
Do the Orioles have a chance of overtaking the Red Sox for the division title next year? (Spoiler: No.)
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AL Gallardo Awards: Honoring the Worst Players in Baseball
Traditional awards spend too much time acknowledging baseball’s best performances, let’s take a look at the other end of the spectrum in honor of Yovani Gallardo!
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Enhancing the Quality Start
M-SABR graduate advisor Kyle Kumbier takes a thoroughly-researched deep dive into improving the Quality Start.
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Club-Friendly Contracts: The Best Players Who Aren’t Cashing In (Part I: AL East)
Which players give you the best (or not so great) bang for your buck?
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2018 Trades: The Worst of the Worst
A few weeks ago, I examined the five best trades from the 2018 trade deadline. Unfortunately, not every trade can be a winner. A great example from 2017 is the Yankees’ trade for Sonny Gray. The Yankees traded three highly-ranked prospects for former all-star Sonny Gray. Since coming to New York, Gray’s performance has been nothing short of disappointing, accumulating an ERA of 4.51 and a FIP of 4.40. Disastrous trades, like this one, happen every season and they can greatly damage teams in the hunt for a championship. Here are the five worst trades of 2018 based on the performance of the traded player and the perceived potential of the players given up.
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American League Award Predictions: Questionable ROY Edition
With awards season in full swing, we decided to do a little award voting of our own here at M-SABR. We voted for MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year in both leagues and below are the results from… Read More ›
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National League Award Predictions: deGOAT Reigns Supreme
With awards season in full swing, we decided to do a little award voting of our own here at M-SABR. We voted for MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year in both leagues and below are the results from our award voting, in which 18 members of M-SABR participated. Voters were asked to choose their top 10 players for MVP, top 5 for Cy Young, and top 3 for Rookie of the Year. Here are the results.
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Time to Change it Up: An Examination of Changeup Usage and Effectiveness from 2015-2018
A 2010 study conducted by Dave Allen over at The Baseball Analysts suggested that all else equal, pitchers should try to avoid throwing their changeups to same-handed hitters and should be more willing to throw their changeups to opposite-handed hitters. 2010 was nearly a decade ago and baseball statistics, technology, and data manipulation have come quite far since then, so we figured we would investigate Allen’s claim that a changeup thrown to an opposite-handed hitter should be more effective than one thrown to a same-handed hitter. What we found was not what we expected.
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NL Gallardo Awards: Honoring the Worst Players in Baseball
At the end of every season, the baseball media likes to focus on the league’s best players, going as far as honoring them after the season with arbitrary awards, based on meaningless things like “performance.” But these awards neglect some… Read More ›
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2018 Gold Glove Predictions
Defensive sabermetrics might be a notoriously imperfect science that lag behind their offensive counterparts, but that doesn’t mean throwing together some stats, some videos, and some passionate M-SABR writers won’t result in an excellent Gold Glove Preview. Stay tuned for… Read More ›
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2018 Trades: The Best of the Best
Machado was the best player moved at the trade deadline, but does he win the title of best trade acquisition?
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2018 Off-Season Preview: AL East
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Club-Friendly Contracts: The Best Players Who Aren’t Cashing In (Part I: AL East)
November 14, 2018
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2018 Season Preview: Awards Predictions
March 28, 2018
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2018 Season Preview: World Series Predictions
March 27, 2018
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Creating a Dynasty Part 6: Season One Review
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Creating a Dynasty Part 5: First All-Star Break
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