Meg Rowley blogs.fangraphs.com Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Welcome to the 2023 positional power rankings! As is tradition, over the next week and a half, we’ll be ranking every team by position as we inch closer to Opening Day. This is always something of a funny exercise. You read FanGraphs regularly, […]
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Sunday Notes: David Ross Considers Managing a Blessing
David Laurila blogs.fangraphs.com David Ross was 38 years old and still strapping on the tools of ignorance when he was featured here at FanGraphs in February 2016. The title of the piece was David Ross: Future Big League Manager, and as many in the industry had suggested it would, that […]
Effectively Wild Episode 1982: Season Preview Series: Mets and Athletics
Ben Lindbergh blogs.fangraphs.com Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the WBC’s TV ratings in Japan and (8:56) possible consequences of MLB’s RSN shake-up, then continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the New York Mets (21:08) with Deesha Thosar of Fox Sports, and the Oakland Athletics (1:00:11) with […]
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. […]
Michael Fulmer: The Ex-Tiger In Spring
Michael Baumann blogs.fangraphs.com Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports In April 2016, a 23-year-old part-time plumber from Oklahoma showed up in Detroit, learned a changeup, and immediately became one of the best pitchers in the American League. In the previous two seasons, the Tigers had lost David Price, Max Scherzer, and Rick […]