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Pitching Showdown: Zack Greinke vs Carlos Carrasco

Fantasy, Fantasy Baseball, MLB / By Felipe Melecio

Controversy ran rampant the day I released my 2015 FUBAR rankings (a.k.a. Felipe’s Ultimate Baseball Advanced Rankings–a look at baseball from exclusively a sabermtrics’ point-of-view) for the top starting pitchers in Major League Baseball: Guess I forgot to share this here. #Top25 starting pitchers of 2015, per #sabermetrics#pitcherscatchersreportpic.twitter.com/RSKCCWPdUi — Felipe M (@pathological_h8) February 18, 2016 […]

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2015 MLB Playoffs By The Numbers

1 Comment / MLB / By Felipe Melecio

Major League Baseball’s most exciting time of the season is here: October baseball is in full swing! And as always, we use Felipe’s Ultimate Baseball Advanced Rankings (or FUBAR for short) to evaluate all 10 teams involved in this postseason. OFFENSE Photoset: The Toronto Blue Jays, by far, have the best offense coming into these

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Diamond Mining: 2014 National League Division Series – Cardinals vs Dodgers

MLB / By Felipe Melecio

Full advanced stats breakdown of the National League Division Series matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals.

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Summer with FUBAR: August MLB Rankings

MLB / By Felipe Melecio

Felipe Melecio uses advanced stats for his MLB rankings as the season moves into its final third.

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Fantasy Baseball Rest-of-Season Projections: Second-Half Streakers

Fantasy Baseball / By Igor Derysh

Last week we looked at some players struggling since the All-Star break and what we can expect from them in the final six weeks of the season. Today, we turn to players seeing an upswing in production since the “second half” began and how much of that production is actually sustainable and who is just

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Dodgers Continue to Spend, Sign Zack Greinke

Los Angeles, MLB / By Tony Consiglio

It wasn’t so long ago that the Los Angeles Dodgers were a pawn in Frank McCourt’s divorce proceedings and were financially unable to do anything. It became a bi-weekly question of whether McCourt would even be able to fill the team’s payroll. That now seems like a lifetime ago. With a new ownership group, led

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MLB: Winter Meetings End, but Work Remains

MLB / By Tony Consiglio

Anyone hoping for resolutions to the two biggest free agent mysteries is surely disappointed as neither Josh Hamilton nor Zack Greinke signed with a team before the 2012 Winter Meetings came to an end. Instead, the four-day gathering fizzled with a handful of signings and rampant speculation and rumors of multi-team trades. The Atlanta Braves

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