Mav Carter: “We just want to build something great. We ask [companies] if they want to be our partners and just go from there.”
Read more "Recapping The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference: Day 1"Winners: The New York Mets. The first thing they’ve won in a long time.
Read more "The Winners and Losers of the 2016-2017 Offseason"You’ve established one pitcher as the best on your staff—batter for batter. You then:
1. Artificially restrict his innings.
2. Keep him from the most important parts of the game.
Does this make sense? Short answer: no.
Read more "#KillTheSave"For those of you who have not already heard of the travesty, the commissioner would like to essentially make teams in low-level minor league games (rookie level) start with a runner on second base in the 10th inning and every inning thereafter. This is not baseball. This is a joke.
Read more "Please, Commissioner Manfred (and Joe Torre), Don’t Change the Extra Innings Rules"Most intentional walks only take somewhere between 30 and 45 seconds to complete. You want to know an easier way to knock 45 seconds off of a game? Shorten the inning clock by three seconds. There you go, Commissioner Manfred, I saved you an additional 45 seconds. You’re welcome.
Read more "Please, Commissioner Manfred, Don’t Change the Intentional Walk Rule"Chris Correa, the former director of scouting for the St. Louis Cardinals, reportedly gained unauthorized access to the Houston Astros’ online system, Ground Control, in 2013 and 2014. He stole a plethora of information, such as trade targets, proposals, and prospect rankings and draft evaluations. At the time of the leak, it was not known that the Cardinals were behind the hacking, but in 2015, the Cardinals came under fire by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for allegedly perpetrating the hack and leaking the documents. Those allegations ended up being true; Correa was sentenced to 46 months in prison, forced to pay a fine of roughly $300K, and handed a lifetime ban from baseball.
Read more "Major League Baseball Botched the Cardinals Hacking Case in a Huge Way"Running down the Dodgers and Rays’ swap of De Leon and Forsythe.
Read more "Evaluating the Trade: Rays get Jose De Leon from Dodgers for Forsythe"An in-depth look at guys who will make the Hall of Fame in each of the next five years (part two of two).
Read more "Predicting the Hall of Fame Voting for the Next Five Years: 2020-2022"An in-depth look at guys who will make the Hall of Fame in each of the next five years (part one of two).
Read more "Predicting the Hall of Fame Voting for the Next Five Years: 2018-2019"Clayton Kershaw could be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018 and I doubt there would be much contention. He won’t be, because he’s only 28 years old (turns 29 in March 2017), and is still pitching in the majors at an extraordinarily high level, so he won’t be eligible for induction. But if Kershaw decides tomorrow to retire and devote the rest of his life to working with his charity, he would still probably make it into the Hall of Fame. For Kershaw, though, the Hall of Fame is just a starting point. I think Kershaw can retire as the greatest (live-ball) pitcher of all-time.
Read more "Clayton Kershaw: The Greatest* Pitcher of All-Time"
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