Month: January 2019

MMO Exclusive: BP’s Russell Carleton and “The Shift”

With the addition of Russell Carleton to the New York Mets Analytics Department, here’s an interview we did with him last Summer. We hope you enjoy. The analytic movement in Major League Baseball continues to gain further acceptance, as all thirty clubs employ statisticians and analysts to crunch the numbers in order to make better baseball decisions. We’ve witnessed teams alter...

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Vientos Among Baseball’s Best Third Base Prospects

Baseball America continued with their top prospects at each position feature on Thursday with one of the strongest groups, third base. Of course, the group is led by Blue Jays’ uber prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr., then Nick Senzel of the Cincinnati Reds. New York Mets prospect Mark Vientos comes into the rankings at No. 15. Vientos, turned 19 in December, has been a hot topic recently...

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The 2019 All-Free Agent Team

As we get ready to enter the month of February in 2019, there’s still a significant amount of talent left on the free agent board. Pitchers and catchers starts reporting in less than two weeks and full squads for a few teams begin on Feb. 16. Big-time deals happening this late in the offseason is becoming common practice with the San Diego Padres signing Eric Hosmer for eight years on Feb....

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MLB News: Harper Meeting With Padres on Thursday

The San Diego Padres are meeting with star free agent Bryce Harper on Thursday in Las Vegas according to Jeff Passan of ESPN. It was reported earlier on Thursday that Harper was going to see a mystery team on Thursday and that other teams are trying to jump into the sweepstakes late by Chris Russell of 106.7 The Fan in Washington. Harper, 26, hit .249/.393/.496 with 34 doubles, 34 home runs, 100...

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Mets Add to Analytics Team, Hire Andrew Perpetua

The Mets kicked off Thursday with the news of them hiring Baseball Prospectus writer Russell Carleton for their analytical department, but they weren’t done, they’ve also hired Andrew Perpetua. Perpetua has written stuff for RotoGraphs, The Hardball Times, and did a couple articles here at MMO back in 2017. He’s also the creator of xStats.org and ran the Twitter account...

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