It’s only two starts, against a couple of below-average offenses, but Gerrit Cole’s first fortnight with the Astros has offered reason to believe that he’ll become for them what he never quite became for the Pirates: a full-fledged ace. He’s fanned 22 opposing batters in 14 innings, allowing just one run and 10 total baserunners….
Houston Astros acquired RHP Roberto Osuna from Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for RHP Ken Giles, RHP David Paulino, and RHP Hector Perez. [7/30] Earlier this week, the Blue Jays traded their closer, Roberto Osuna, to the Astros, getting Ken Giles, Hector Perez, and David Paulino in return. The Astros, en route to another postseason…
Over at the BP Prospect Team, we’ve spent the last six months or so writing scouting reports and making rankings and talking largely in vernacular that feels like it could be inscrutable. All of these lists and reports have grades called “OFP/likely” on the 20-80 scale. We just sort of assume you know what it…
Each winter, as baseball hibernates and dreams of the joys that await, PECOTA goes through a multi-layer process that begins with locating similarities between players past and present, and using the past trajectories to inform its expectations for the upcoming season. While the system proceeds to combine those expectations into predictions for teams and standings,…
Don’t think about the last time you attended a funeral in Pittsburgh. Don’t think about your great aunt’s funeral on one of those cold gray days the city specializes in. A city with less sunshine than Seattle; a city clouded in funereal gray. Your sister stands next to you, and your shoes sink in the…
Traducido por Martin Alonso Para el Equipo de BP Prospectos, hemos pasado los últimos seis meses, aproximadamente, escribiendo reportes de scouts y construyendo rankings y hablando usando un vocabulario misterioso. Todas estas listas y reportes tienen notas llamadas “OFP/likely” en la escala 20-80. Asumimos que saben lo que significa, o pueden descifrarlo por contexto. ¿Pero…