Category Archives: Baseball

Say Goodbye to J.P. Arencibia, Relevant Fantasy Catcher

Title: Say Goodbye to J.P. Arencibia, Relevant Fantasy Catcher
Date: October 15, 2013
Original Source: Rotographs
Synopsis: Home run totals can make an otherwise mediocre player fantasy relevant. This article lamented the end of J.P. Arencibia as someone who was even fantasy relevant, considering his real-world performance had gotten too bad to expect anything from moving forward.
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Chris Davis: A Case Study for The Hardball Times Annual

Title: Chris Davis: A Case Study for The Hardball Times Annual
Date: November 12, 2013
Original Source: The Hardball Times
Synopsis: I provided a case study on Chris Davis’ breakout season for The Hardball Times Annual 2014. That’s a book, my first time appearing in one.
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Francisco Liriano: My Fantasy MVP

Title: Francisco Liriano: My Fantasy MVP
Date: October 10, 2013
Original Source: Rotographs
Synopsis: Forced to select our Fantasy MVPs for the season, this article gave some appreciation to the once-again-stellar Francisco Liriano.
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10 Bold Reflections: We suck, we’re idiots

Title: 10 Bold Reflections: We suck, we’re idiots
Date: October 8, 2013
Original Source: Rotographs
Synopsis: This article looked back at the 10 Bold Predictions I had to make in the preseason for Rotographs. Uhh…please keep in mind the bar for “bold” is pretty high, and 3/10 isn’t all that bad. And uhh, yeah, maybe just move on.
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Final Week Shortstop Plays By Category

Title: Final Week Shortstop Plays By Category
Date: September 24, 2013
Original Source: Rotographs
Synopsis: This article recommended certain shortstops based on different category needs for the final week of the fantasy season.
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Breaking down Brad Miller for 2014

Title: Breaking down Brad Miller for 2014
Date: September 10, 2013
Original Source: Rotographs
Synopsis: This article looked at Brad Miller’s potential fantasy value for 2014, as he was surprisingly a hot topic in the comment section of a recent piece.
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Meet the New Hanley, Same as the Old Hanley

Title: Meet the New Hanley, Same as the Old Hanley
Date: September 17, 2013
Original Source: Rotographs
Synopsis: This article looked at the bounce-back season for Hanley Ramirez, who was suddenly back in the discussion as one of the league’s premier fantasy shortstops.
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Visualizing the AL MVP Race

Title: Visualizing the AL MVP Race
Date: September 11, 2013
Original Source: Beyond the Boxscore
Synopsis: While Wins Above Replacement is a counting statistic, it can also change retroactively as replacement level changes. Still, I took an attempt at visualizing the American League MVP race with time series WAR data.
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Rejected FanGraphs Spin-Offs

Title: Rejected FanGraphs Spin-Offs
Date: September 5, 2013
Original Source: Notgraphs
Synopsis: With Fangraphs having spawned Beergraphs, I looked at some rejected spin-off ideas.
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Looking back at Mark Eichhorn’s 1986 season

Title: Looking back at Mark Eichhorn’s 1986 season
Date: September 3, 2013
Original Source: Bluebird Banter
Synopsis: This article looked back at the insane season Mark Eichorn put up for the Blue Jays in 1986.
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