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April 8, 2021 Tim Anderson is a befuddling player. Over the last two-plus seasons, he has posted a 133 wRC+ despite a minuscule walk rate (3.3%) that is the third lowest among all players with at least 500 plate appearances, ahead of only slap hitters José Iglesias and Hanser Alberto. That puts a lot of pressure on his ability to produce on contact. So far, so good: In that same time frame, he has a .390 BABIP, tops among all hitters and a full eight points above the next closest player (coinc...

April 7, 2021 This is Carmen’s first piece as a FanGraphs contributor. Carmen is an engineer living in the Bay Area. Born and raised in Connecticut, his inherited Yankees fandom (yes, he can hear all of your grumbles) and curiosity about math and science combined to foster a fascination with how players contribute to run scoring and prevention, as did growing up reading the venerable pages of sabermetric havens such as FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, and Beyond the Boxscore. The accessibility...

April 6, 2021 This is Justin’s first piece as a FanGraphs contributor. Justin has always been a baseball fan and a writer, but it wasn’t until Hyun Jin Ryu began dominating in 2019 that he started to fuse those interests together. He’s written for a few places since then, including Prospects365 and Dodgers Digest, and is now hoping to pester the good people of FanGraphs with his deep-dives into niche topics. Outside of the baseball blogosphere, he’s a student at Washington University in...

April 6, 2021 This is Justin’s first piece as a FanGraphs contributor. Justin has always been a baseball fan and a writer, but it wasn’t until Hyun Jin Ryu began dominating in 2019 that he started to fuse those interests together. He’s written for a few places since then, including Prospects365 and Dodgers Digest, and is now hoping to pester the good people of FanGraphs with his deep-dives into niche topics. Outside of the baseball blogosphere, he’s a student at Washington University in...

It all begins today. Barring any postponements, for the first time since 1968 every team will begin play on the first day of the MLB season -- the way it should be every season. The Los Angeles Dodgers begin their chase for history. They are trying to become the first team since the 2000 New York Yankees to win back-to-back World Series titles. Behind a power-packed starting rotation, maybe they even have a chance at the single-season record of 116 wins -- their 162-game pace from 2020 equated ...

2 Related Not only will the Dodgers become the first team since the 1998-2000 Yankees to win back-to-back championships, but they will threaten the regular-season benchmarks of the 98 Yankees -- who won 114 -- and the 01 Mariners, who won 116. The starting rotation depth is extraordinary and they will feast on what should be a very polarized National League, which will have a lot of really bad teams after the midseason sell-offs. -- Buster Olney Yeah. Its boring. Its chalky. I dont care. The D...

The Diamondbacks went into the 2020 campaign aiming for a playoff spot, but they wound up going 25-35 and finishing …

Putting the top prospect rankings in context Share this story Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images One of the things I most look forward to in the runup to Spring Training every year is the release of the Top 100 prospects lists. Many outlets release versions of this list including MLB.com, FanGraphs, Baseball America ($), Baseball Prospectus ($), ESPN ($), and The Athletic ($) (among many others). I enjoy looking at the lists to learn the experts’ thinking about the Twins�...

New York Yankees outfielder Jasson Dominguez continues to rank as one of the top prospects in baseball. Pitchers Deivi Garcia and Clarke Schmidt are in the conversation as well.

The next Baby Bomber? Yankees’ top slugger of the future comes as no surprise Updated Mar 05, 2021; Posted Mar 05, 2021 The secrets out on who will join Gleyber Torres, left, and Aaron Judge (99) as the next great Yankees slugger.AP Facebook Share The Baby Bombers are hitting middle age. Pretty soon, right fielder Aaron Judge, shortstop Gleyber Torres and catcher Gary Sanchez will be the old guys in the clubhouse with a new crop of power hitters ready to move into the lineup. MLB.com identi...