Fantasy Ballevski: Catcher Rankings
Mar08

Fantasy Ballevski: Catcher Rankings

You’ll have to just take my word for it, but I’m pretty good at fantasy baseball. Here are my catcher rankings for redraft leagues. For hitters, my rankings are made for leagues that include OBP and SLG. Think of a 7×7 league with traditional 5×5 stats plus OBP and SLG for batters. For (almost) each player I’ve included rough estimations of what to expect statistically, what the upside might be, and what...

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What Happened to the Ninja?
Feb23

What Happened to the Ninja?

Part 1 – Alex the Great During his first lap around baseball as the Blue Jays General Manager, Alex Anthopoulos succeeded with flying colours at both invigorating a disillusioned fanbase and earning himself a bevy of endearing monikers. He became a “genius”, a “god”, and a “ninja”, all within the span of one season and a couple of offseasons. He was young, creative, energetic, bold, and progressive. After taking over the helm in...

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Logan Forsythe Is Available! Be Still, My Heart!
Jan20

Logan Forsythe Is Available! Be Still, My Heart!

The baseball Twitterverse’s teenage reporting phenom Chris Cotillo has informed the world that “a number of teams” have called the Padres to ask about the availability of Logan Forsythe. As MLBTR’s Jeff Todd explains, Forsythe is superfluous in San Diego. The Padres have Headley at 3rd and Jeb Jerko at 2nd, which functionally plugs up the only two positions where Forsythe would seem to have a chance to be a...

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Blue Jays True Talent Offensive Platoon Splits
Jan16

Blue Jays True Talent Offensive Platoon Splits

One of the most common sabermetric faux pas is the misinterpretation of a player’s platoon splits. It is very common for fans to simply look at a player’s splits from last season, or the last couple of seasons, and form an opinion on that player’s platoon skills based on that information. Even the statistically baptized can sometimes be found committing this sin. Someone who has read Moneyball and The Extra 2% might...

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A Premortem for Kevin Towers
Dec29

A Premortem for Kevin Towers

The GM career of Kevin Towers is still alive and ostensibly healthy in the desert, but all is not well. Between an extended string of questionable or poor personnel decisions and transactions, and the fostering of an organizational culture that, at least from the outside, appears to ostracize talent for the sake of less tangible qualities, Towers is piloting an ill-fated vehicle of his own construction. Towers is burning the...

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