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Let’s look back at the players picked 32nd overall in baseball’s amateur draft.

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34 Years Ago Today Kelly Gruber hits for the first cycle in Blue Jays’ history. Since then, Steve Frye and Cavan Biggio has done it for the Jays. We were playing the Royals and won big 15-8. G...

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Can the Tigers finally beat their PECOTA prediction? They only need 68 wins to do it. Updated Feb 10, 2021; Posted Feb 10, 2021 Detroit Tigers Isaac Paredes reacts after striking out during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP Facebook Share The PECOTA standings, released Tuesday, predict the Tigers will go 67-95, last place in the American League Central and just one game better than the Baltimore Oriol...

Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images It’s PECOTA week at Baseball Prospectus, diving deep into their flagship projection system. It cleverly shares a name with nine-year major league infielder Bill Pecota, but also is an acronym, standing for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm. Among the difficulties this year with projections is how to handle a truncated 2020 season that was 37 percent of a normal season’s length. Jonathan Judge tackles that and other questions, an...