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After acquiring a starter in the deal that sent Jorge Polanco to the Seattle Mariners, the Twins have the silhouette of a full starting rotation for 2024. What will we see when we ask some of that group to step all the way into the light?

Brady Singer has a multi-faceted sinker.

What’s real and what’s a statistical mirage after Tigers’ miserable start? You may not like the answers. Updated 12:16 PM; Today 11:46 AM Detroit Tigers Akil Baddoo walks to the dugout during the first inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals in Detroit, Saturday, April 24, 2021. The Royals won 2-1. (AP Photo/Raj Mehta)AP Facebook Share If you’re the Detroit Tigers, the first step is to determine the truly bad performances from the merely unlucky ones. The problem? Slo...

February 12, 2021 In the 2020 season, American League MVP José Abreu faced 107 different pitchers, including the top four in Cy Young voting point totals (Shane Bieber, Trevor Bauer, Yu Darvish, and Kenta Maeda). Bauer was the only of the four not to allow a home run to Abreu in 2020. In comparison, MVP Runner-up José Ramírez faced 69 of the pitchers that Abreu faced. The third-place DJ LeMahieu faced a completely different set of pitchers, not a single one overlapping with Abreu’s. While ...

February 12, 2021 In the 2020 season, American League MVP José Abreu faced 107 different pitchers, including the top four in Cy Young voting point totals (Shane Bieber, Trevor Bauer, Yu Darvish, and Kenta Maeda). Bauer was the only of the four not to allow a home run to Abreu in 2020. In comparison, MVP Runner-up José Ramírez faced 69 of the pitchers that Abreu faced. The third-place DJ LeMahieu faced a completely different set of pitchers, not a single one overlapping with Abreu’s. While ...

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...