Sports 4 Dorks

Dwight Evans was 30 years old when he hit 2 triples on 5/11/1982. I’m a bit surprised that this record has held up for 25 seasons…but we have enough over 30 sluggers on the roster this season that this record could fall.

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John and Geoff chat about life, the universe and everything over a cold beer.

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A look at which players and teams should see the biggest changes to their power numbers, based on the info at Greg Rybarsyk’s Hit Tracker website.

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Sal uses Marcel projections to evaluate a few players’ talent.

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Matthew Whipps and Seamheads join BDD, new menus and buttons appear, the newsletter keeps growing, and your favorite writers now will appear on regularly scheduled days…all this and more in today’s update…

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DoublePlay TV has started producing the “MLB Roundup” which FanGraphs will hopefully be a contributor to in the future. Here’s the latest, which I plan to post as they become available.

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Now that both league’s power rankings are up (AL/NL), I will begin my preview series, covering (or attempting to cover) all 30 teams before the season starts. Tuesday, I will begin with a piece on NL sleepers featuring in the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds, who both rate very low according to […]

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Like a Scotch drinker, I’ve found my taste for baseball projections has matured over the years. Where my initial taste was weaned on Dewar’s-quality projections like ESPN, Yahoo!, or some $4.95 magazine off the newsstand, I now hold out for premium, single-malt varieties like PECOTA/Baseball Prospectus and Ron Shandler. I recommend buying both of their […]

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I ran a few mock drafts in the recent days in order to practice, but I found that people in the mock drafts really had no idea what they were doing. So instead, I signed up for 3 free CBS Sportsline teams and the MLB.com free team - which all draft this week. What I […]

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The American League is well-known to be the superior of the two leagues as even teams that once seemed completely lost like the Tampa Bay Rays and Kansas City Royals are starting to look better and better each year. The American League is also home of the five powerhouse teams, the Boston Red Sox, […]

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