Posts Tagged ‘free agency’

Prospectus Feature: What if the Yankees Spent Like it Was 2003?$

From the Outfield Grass: Who is Dallas Keuchel Now?$

Circle Change: Fans Who Don’t Want Bryce Harper — A Field Guide$

Moonshot: The Decline of Teams Built Around Free Agents$

Rubbing Mud: The Best Hitters Against Good Pitching$

Moonshot: Free Agents Can Bring Home a Trophy$

Cold Takes: What They Make

Maybe we’ve been doing transaction analysis wrong this whole time.

Circle Change: The Familiar Downside of a “Winter Deadline”$

Rubbing Mud: Stanton Deal a Red Herring for Harper and Machado?$

Moonshot: Why Did 29 Teams Not Offer Yasmani Grandal $20 Million?$

Short Relief: Destinations Unknown

If you search Mike Trout’s Twitter account for the airplane emoji, you will find 168 tweets in which it is paired with some number of exclamation marks and often accompanying the name of a city. The first such tweet dates back to September 18th, 2013, the day the Angels ended a 10-game road trip and…

Moonshot: The Coldest Stove$

Short Relief: The Dark Night and the Joker

It has grown dark in the Northwest. The region is best known for its rain, but for me it’s the darkness that defines our winters. Located farther north than Quebec, Seattle Decembers are marked by a sun that spends but a few hours barely cresting the southern horizon. I used to hate it. I couldn’t…

Baseball Therapy: Fixing the Service Time Manipulation Problem

Would ditching service time for an age-based free agency system stop teams from keeping top prospects in the minors?

Rumor Roundup: Souza, Rajai, Samardzija$

Rumor Roundup: Cobb, Arrieta and Walker

Alex Cobb still doesn’t have any takers, Jake Arrieta takes things slow with the Phillies, and the Yankees add infield depth with Neil Walker.