We last left off on our “Biggest Losers” series with Part III evaluating the 2013 season of the following starting pitchers: Kris Medlen Lucas Harrell Wily Peralta In case you missed the previous two installments, you can still read Part I and Part II. Before I move on to baseball’s next puzzlers, I would be […]
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Ryan Braun was let off the hook in 2011 when he successfully appealed the 50 game suspension handed down by the league at the end of the season. He denied that his relations with Biogenesis owner Tony Bosch had to do with anything PED-related when rumors surfaced late last year and early this year. And
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We are almost four months into the season which means that whatever players did back in April and May is pretty much irrelevant in terms of what you can expect the rest of the way. Plenty of players like Marlon Byrd, Wily Peralta, and Felix Doubront were terrible in the first month or two of
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Welcome to post-All-Star break Major League Baseball. One of the most exciting times of the year is the time leading up to the trade deadline. Rumors run rampant as the contenders try to acquire the piece or pieces that will put them over the top and propel them into the postseason. In addition to that,
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In our last installment of our MLB Biggest Losers’ series, we’ll take a look at a trio of nine-loss pitchers. There were seven starting pitchers with nine losses on their record that were considered as “qualified” in terms of obtaining a certain amount of innings pitched. I originally wanted to evaluate nine pitchers for this project, so of
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Bill Petti of fangraphs.com recently released his monthly Velocity Decline Trends for the month of June. He compiled a sizable list of starting and relief pitchers that have lost at least one mph on their fastball since June of 2012. Petti explains: “pitchers who experience at least a one mph drop in their four-seam fastball velocity in a month
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Last year, the debate between sabermetricians and traditional baseball analysts took center stage when Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout both had MVP-worthy campaigns, but made their cases in different stat columns. Today, in 2013, the debate is no less pertinent. I had a chance to chat with former MLB outfielder Gabe Kapler about the rift between
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The Philadelphia Phillies find themselves in the uncomfortable situation of trying to decide if they want to buy or sell at the trade deadline. The Phils were 42-45 heading into Saturday’s action but at 7.5 games out of first place, the possibility remains that they could still make a run at the division. The final
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