- Edwin Jackson Is In Love With His Slider
Ryan Martin Jackson has little use for this piece of baseball wisdom, as 2011 has seen him throw his slider more than ever in his career. Last night's World Series Game 4 was no exception, as Jackson offered
- An Alternative to Pujols in St.Louis
Ryan Campbell Furcal or to bring in a capable alternative, and Cards fans would probably be looking at a lot of Ryan Theriot (+0.6 WAR over the last two seasons) or a low-cost free agent at short.
As luck would
- Joe Saunders: A Fit for the New-Look Marlins?
Ryan Campbell with a guy like Saunders, rather than spend big bucks on a marginal upgrade like Hiroki Kuroda or Edwin Jackson. Saunders is a good buy, provided the team can sign him for an AAV in the $5 million to $6
- Starlin Castro Is Good at Baseball
Ryan Campbell in Cooperstown.
If we go below Castro’s level of production we find other very good shortstops like Travis Jackson (95), Edgar Renteria (92), Robin Yount (83) and Elvis Andrus (81).
I’m not trying
- Yu Darvish's Landing Spot
Ryan Campbell Hiroki Kuroda, Edwin Jackson and Roy Oswalt, none of them quite offer the intrigue of Darvish. On the other hand, the Rangers are in win-now mode with Josh Hamilton, Michael Young and Ian Kinsler set
- Edwin Jackson's Increased Slider Use
Dave AllenI was listening to yesterday's excellent FanGraphs Audio with Carson, Jack and Matt, and they brought up Edwin Jackson. In the episode, they noted Jackson's soaring O-swing rate last year; wondered
- Austin Jackson, Man of Action for Tigers
Wendy Thurm pedestrian 2010 form. And second base has been a pile of dreck among Brandon Inge (before he was released), Ramon Santiago, and Ryan Raburn.
The bright spot has been center fielder Austin Jackson
- Expanded Four Factors: Austin Jackson's BABIP
Jack MooreExpanded Four Factors links:
Aaron Hill
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Yesterday afternoon, I took a look at Aaron Hill and his abnormally low BABIP. Naturally, today we
- Ryan Vogelsong and Cause For Concern
J.P. BreenRight-hander Ryan Vogelsong proved to be one of the feel-good stories of the year in 2011.
The 34-year-old owned an unsightly career 5.86 ERA through 315 major-league innings with the San
- Ryan Raburn: Second Half Stud
Erik Hahmann at least, is Adam LaRoche. He has a .56 point jump in his OPS after the break. The gap was most noticeable in 2006, 2008 and 2009. Ryan Raburn seems to be taking a similar career path. In 587 career
- Would Taking a One-Year Deal Help Edwin Jackson?
Dave Cameron, and Edwin Jackson. Fielder is still available due to a strategy decision by his agent, who has dragged out the process to try and lure more teams into the bidding. Oswalt is reportedly being picky about
- Unlucky R-Ho
Ryan Glass will probably come back to earth and those that were unlucky are due to breakout. This can be very helpful when deciding to draft one player or another. The first player in the series is Ryan Howard
- The Lucky Riot
Ryan Glass formulate a new version of xBABIP that takes into account a number of components of the hitter and models the way their BIP should be converted to outs/hits.
Last year Ryan Theriot had his best season
- Oblique Injuries in MLB
Ryan Martin Longoria, Jason Bay, J.A. Happ, Curtis Granderson, Brian Wilson, Jair Jurrjens, and Ryan Zimmerman are some of the players who were slowed by oblique injuries in 2011, with Zimmerman drastically altering
- Open-Market Value — The Free Agent Team
Ryan Campbell such as Bartolo Colon, Brandon McCarthy, Jhonny Peralta and Ryan Vogelsong. Instead, Mr. Dave Cameron, in his infinite generosity, has given me a budget of $80 million FanGraphs Pesos to piece together a free
- Stanton's Possible Extension
Ryan Campbell to look like in order to get a deal done. As Jong notes, Prince Fielder made $33.5 million in his three arbitration seasons with this same skillset, while Ryan Howard achieved Super Two status
- Extending Shaun Marcum
Ryan Campbell consisting of Ryan Braun, Rickie Weeks, Corey Hart, Yovani Gallardo, Greinke and Marcum. It may be in their best interest to go with a one-year deal, as it allows them to cut bait if Marcum gets hurt
- FAN Projection Targets: AL West Second Basemen
Ryan Campbell under his belt. He also has more Fan Projections submitted than pretty much everyone except Ryan Braun - and these projections are optimistic. In limited action last year, he posted a strong .340
- Arizona Fall League - Arms to Watch
Ryan Martin
- The Evolution of K-Rod
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- Motte, Feliz Continue Tradition
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- The Brandon McCarthy Saga - Part One
Ryan Campbell
- The Brandon McCarthy Saga - Part Two
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- How Will Prince Fielder Age?
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- Dan Duquette as GM: The Pitching Staff
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- Don't Sleep on the Angels
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- Red Sox Bring In Jesse Carlson
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- The Post-Injury Jeff Francis and DIPS
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- Who Is Your $100 Million Pitcher?
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- Yadier Molina's Potential Payday and Catcher Aging
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- Brett Cecil's Descent?
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- Will Elvis Andrus Make a Fantasy Impact Next Year?
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- Derek Lowe the Brave
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- Unlucky Beltre
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- Trevor Hoffman on the Move
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- Figgins Got Lucky?
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- Khalil Greene: Worse than Unlucky in 2008
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- Is Magglio Done?
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- What Shakes out in the Rays Bullpen?
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- Matt Wieters This Year
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- John Dewan: Jeter vs Ryan and 10x10 Buckets
David Laurila sessions he talked about a notable improvement to the Defensive Runs Saved system -- and why Derek Jeter costs his team a lot of runs.
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