May 15, 2024
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Fernando Cruz’s Splitter Is Unhittable, but Batters Keep Trying
There are two theories about how to hit Cruz's splitter. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
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Kyle Finnegan’s Splitter Is a Derivative of Elroy Face’s Forkball
The Washington Nationals right-hander might be baseball’s most underrated closer.
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Chicago Cubs Top 47 Prospects
This is one of the very best systems in all of baseball, with the most Top 100 prospects of any team in the sport.
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Clarke Schmidt Is Spinning in All the Right Places
I remember hearing that while it’s good to throw strikes, it’s actually a bad thing to throw pitches right down the middle if you can avoid it.
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Top of the Order: The Royals Perform When It Counts
Kansas City shouldn’t count on clutch continuing, but that doesn’t mean it won’t. Plus, break up the Rockies! Also, an Atlanta ghost bench update.
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Jung Hoo Lee Goes Down Amid a Brutal String of Giants Injuries
The former KBO star faces an extended absence after he dislocated his left shoulder crashing into the outfield wall.
What Statcast's New Bat Tracking Data Does and Doesn't Tell Us
Bat tracking data is going to usher in a new tidal wave of analysis. Here are some things worth investigating, as well as a few places I looked and found very little.
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Lucas Erceg: Oakland's Other Breakout Reliever
I regret not getting to this two weeks ago, because I would’ve hammered the “more like Lucas Goose-egg” joke until you started sending me rotten vegetables in the mail.
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