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4:01 4:02 Sad, Confused Marlins Fan: Huge baseball fan and I just heard about this Atlantic League. Can you give me a atlantic league for dummies ? �� 4:04 Meg Rowley: Not a dummy – there’s a lot to know, but for your purposes, it is probably good to start with this piece on the most recent round of experimentation MLB is going to do there (they’re an MLB partner league): https://theathletic.com/2518208/2021/04/14/moving-the-mound-the-double… and how past players there have felt abo...

April 15, 2021 Corbin Burnes was still flying below the radar when he was featured here at FanGraphs in June 2017. He’d come into the season ranked No. 18 on our Milwaukee Brewers Top Prospect list, and Baseball America was even less bullish, slotting him 24th on their own. When I talked to him for the article, the 2016 fourth-round pick out of St. Mary’s College had yet to throw a pitch above the A-ball level. He’s not under the radar anymore. Burnes broke out in last year’s pandemic-...

Rafael Montero blew the save in the seventh inning of Game 1 of the doubleheader against the Orioles, so Graveman was called on to pitch the eighth. He worked a 1-2-3 inning picking up his first save of the season. The former starter is up in the high-90s with his sinker and hasn’t allowed a run this season, with five strikeouts. Montero (more on him below) has blown three games already, so Graveman could be on the cusp of taking his role. Committee Clarity •Greg Holland, KCR| RosterResour...

April 14, 2021 Last week, Justin Choi published an examination of the new ball. The results were — well, you should read it for yourself, but they were muddled, to say the least. Home runs are down! Exit velocity is up! Liners got better, fly balls got worse. It’s enough to make you wonder whether we’ll ever know the answer. It’s also catnip to analysts, and so today I’d like to present some supplemental evidence that only makes me more confused. There were two key conflicting finding...

April 14, 2021 There might be no player in baseball who is more fun to watch or more talented than Shohei Ohtani. On Tuesday, he beat out what looked like a routine groundball to shortstop for an infield single, with a sprint speed of 29.5 feet per second. Later that game, he drilled a ball 431 feet for a solo home run — one that left his bat at 108.9 mph, already his 11th batted ball of 105 mph or more this season. That’s all business as usual for the two-way star, even as he recovers from...

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