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2:00 Ben Clemens: Someone asked a question that I feel very passionately about, and it seems like a perfect thing to start the chat on. This one is going to be participatory — if you come up with any ideas, let me know, and I’ll keep talking about it throughout the chat 2:00 2:01 Ben Clemens: I hadn’t thought about this until now, but it’s of GREAT import to me as a baseball watcher 2:01 2:01 2:02 Appa Yip Yip: Have you ever thought about doing historical comparisons of stuff and veloci...

April 11, 2021 The 2021 version of Bullpen Report includes five different sections, as well as the closer chart, which can be found at the bottom of the page. Notable Workloads: Primary closers or valuable members of a closer committee who have been deemed unavailable or likely unavailable for the current day due to recent workload. Injury News  Outlier Saves: Explanation for a non-closer earning a save during the previous day. Committee Clarity: Notes on a closer committee that clarify a pitc...

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April 11, 2021 Joe Musgrove came into the season viewed by many as a breakout candidate, and it’s easy to see why. The 28-year-old Pirate-turned-Padre possesses plus stuff, and the change of scenery — from Pittsburgh to his hometown of San Diego, no less — portends more success…. particularly in the won-loss column. Musgrove went a paltry 1-5 with the N.L. Central cellar-dwellers in 2020, while his new club is poised to win, per our projections, 94 games in the current campaign. By and ...

7:33 7:33 7:34 7:34 Jeff Zimmerman: That said, they are three different players. Arraez is going to end up with 3 positions and might be the best when in a full-time role 7:35 7:35 7:35 Closer carousel: Merryweather or Romano as closer for Jays? Reyes for Cards? Castillo in TB? Who in Det and Bal  and Oak? 7:36 7:36 Jeff Zimmerman: Tor: I think it’s Romano’s right now and if he does the job, Merryweather sets up. Comparable to Hader and Williams last year 7:37 7:37 7:38 7:38 Jeff Zimmerma...

April 5, 2021 I come here not to bury MLB, and not really to praise it, but to wonder what else it could have done. On Friday, the league announced that it would be pulling this summer’s All-Star Game from Atlanta in the wake of Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature passing a law that would, among other things, impose burdensome new ID requirements on voters, limit absentee voting, and give the legislature wide latitude to intervene on state and county election boards. It was a move b...

April 5, 2021 In January, we at FanGraphs put out a call for radio broadcast ratings. Over the past few days, we’ve released a compilation of those rankings, as well as selected commentary from each team’s responses. This is the last installment of that compilation. As a refresher, our survey asked for scores in four areas. If you’d like a thorough explanation of them, you can read the introductory article, but I’ll also recap them briefly here. If you’d like to see the rest of our re...

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April 5, 2021 This is Matthew’s first post as a FanGraphs contributor. Matthew is a staff writer and podcast host at Lookout Landing, where he ponders great existential questions like, “Why would anyone be a Seattle Mariners fan?” and, “What dark curse did the Mariners conjure to make Mark Canha such an annoyance in their life?” He has written about the lack of Black players in Major League Baseball, recorded parody songs about the Astros’ banging scheme, and interviewed several min...