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Founded in 2016, Michigan Baseball and Sabermetrics is the first club at the University of Michigan solely dedicated to the study of baseball and sabermetrics, the advanced statistics of the game.

• 2018 Season Preview: Chicago White Sox

  By M-SABR on February 28, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  (Daniel Bartel / Icon Sportswire) As winter draws to a close, temperatures rise—Ann Arbor aside—and Spring Training gets underway it can only mean one thing: Baseball is (almost) here! Welcome back to M-SABR’s Season Preview 30 Teams in 30 Days… Read More ›

• 2018 Season Preview: Detroit Tigers

  By M-SABR on February 27, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Photo: Keith Allison/Flickr As winter draws to a close, temperatures rise—Ann Arbor aside—and Spring Training gets underway it can only mean one thing: Baseball is (almost) here! Welcome back to M-SABR’s Season Preview 30 Teams in 30 Days series, where… Read More ›

• 2018 Season Preview: Boston Red Sox

  By M-SABR on February 26, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Photo: Wikimedia Commons As winter draws to a close, temperatures rise—Ann Arbor aside—and Spring Training gets underway it can only mean one thing: Baseball is (almost) here! Welcome back to M-SABR’s Season Preview 30 Teams in 30 Days series, where… Read More ›

• 2018 Season Preview: New York Yankees

  By M-SABR on February 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Photo: Wikimedia Commons by Jared Wolff New York Yankees 2017 Record: 91-71 (2nd AL East) 2017 Payroll: $224,458,752 (2nd) Projected 2018 Lineup: All player projections for 2018 from Steamer LF Brett Gardner, .258 AVG/.344 OBP/.411 SLG, 1.6 WAR RF Aaron… Read More ›

• 2018 Season Preview: Tampa Bay Rays

  By M-SABR on February 24, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Photo: Keith Allison/Wikimedia by Aaron Knopf As winter draws to a close, temperatures rise—Ann Arbor aside—and the sweet sounds of bats hitting balls emanate from Florida and Arizona, echoing around the country, it can only mean one thing: Baseball is… Read More ›

• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep 2018: Sleepers

  By M-SABR on February 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  by Erik McKeen, Anthony Brown, and Griffin Murphy Finding value with your sleepers is the most important part of draft day. This is the best way to gain an advantage over your opponents and hit the ground running when Opening… Read More ›

• Can Outperforming xFIP Be Predicted?

  By M-SABR on February 8, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  (Wikimedia Commons) by Theo Mackie For nearly as long as baseball has existed, ERA has been the king of pitching statistics among the vast majority of fans. But, as most baseball fans know, Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) has risen to… Read More ›

• M-Sabermetric All-Stars, Vol. II: The Barrels/PA All-Star Team

  By M-SABR on February 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  by Max Smith, Max Brill, Cam Cain, Jack Gioffre, Parker Marcon, Matthew Kikkert, Connor Stemme and Clayton Myers Though it no longer arbitrarily decides home-field advantage for the World Series, it’s hard not to love the All-Star Game. From newcomers… Read More ›

• Why the Mets Pitching Staff Will Finally Live Up to their Potential

  By M-SABR on January 27, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

    (James Keivom / New York Daily News) by Jared Wolff Following their World Series appearance in 2015, Mets fans envisioned years of contention led by the starting rotation. The group was thought of as the best young starting rotation… Read More ›

• The K Zone: Why strikeouts affect pitchers more than hitters

  By M-SABR on January 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  (Kathy Willens / AP) by Patrick Barron Ever wonder why strikeouts are more important for pitchers than for hitters?