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• 2018 Season Preview: Baltimore Orioles

  By Sahil Shah on February 22, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  by Sahil Shah 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 (almost) back! Pitchers… 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 ›

• MLB Free Agency: Cubs Sign Darvish to 6-Year/$126M Deal, take a calculated risk

  By Zane Harding on February 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By Zane Harding The Cubs made a huge splash Saturday afternoon, inking All-Star pitcher Yu Darvish to a long-term contract. The 6-Year/$126M deal has a $21M AAV and is the biggest contract signed in this unprecedently slow off-season. By committing… 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 ›

• A Deeper Look at this Historically Slow Offseason

  By Max Brill on February 6, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  (Wikimedia Commons) by Max Brill This offseason has been one of the slowest, if not the slowest, in history. The top five free agents according to MLB Trade Rumors all remain unsigned, and we are now less than two weeks away… Read More ›

• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep 2018: Do’s and Don’ts

  By Erik McKeen on February 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  If you are a baseball fan and have not tried fantasy baseball yet, I highly recommend doing so. It’s a lot of fun, and if you are already familiar with the widely successful fantasy football, you can fit in easily…. 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 ›

• Club-Friendly Contracts: The Best Players Who Aren’t Cashing In MVP Series Part V: National League Central

  By Duncan Wallis on January 30, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune) by Duncan Wallis This is the fifth installment of a multi-article series about the true value of the best MLB players. Today, we’re looking at the National League Central. For a brief introduction or a… Read More ›

• If Mike Trout Played His Entire Career in the Pecos League: An OOTP Experiment

  By Cam Cain on January 28, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  Does Mike Trout have a chance to be the GOAT? Cam Cain takes another OOTP deep dive and discovers that the answer to that question in the Pecos League is a resounding yes.

• 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 ›

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