Jay Jaffe blogs.fangraphs.com Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Yesterday, Meg Rowley introduced this year’s rankings, while Dan Szymborski examined the state of the league’s catchers. Today, we turn our attention to first and second basemen. First base was “The Goldy and Freddie Show” in 2022. Paul Goldschmidt and Freddie Freeman both […]
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Losing Edwin Díaz Is a Gut Punch for the Mets To Absorb
Jay Jaffe blogs.fangraphs.com Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports However you feel about the World Baseball Classic, there’s no getting around the fact that the Mets were dealt a stunning blow when Edwin Díaz sustained a freak right knee injury on Wednesday night while celebrating Puerto Rico’s victory over the Dominican Republic. […]
Ian Anderson Optioned Again as Braves’ Rotation Battle Comes into Focus
Jay Jaffe blogs.fangraphs.com Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Ian Anderson played a major part in the Braves’ success when they came within one win of a trip to the World Series in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season and then won it all the following year. But after struggling for the first four […]
Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 3/14/23
Jay Jaffe blogs.fangraphs.com Brooklyn-based Jay Jaffe is a senior writer for FanGraphs, the author of The Cooperstown Casebook (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) and the creator of the JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score) metric for Hall of Fame analysis. He founded the Futility Infielder website (2001), was a columnist for Baseball […]
Painter, Rodón, Gonsolin and Quintana Are the Latest Starters Stopped in Their Tracks
Jay Jaffe blogs.fangraphs.com Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports “You can never have too much pitching” is an adage that predates the bombing of Pearl Harbor and a notion that’s at least as old as Old Hoss Radbourn’s sore right arm. Every team goes into the season expecting that its rotation will […]