How do we properly value what a baseball player accomplishes on the diamond? That answer may vary depending on the person getting asked, but if we’re looking at it strictly from a numbers perspective, Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is the best way to quickly evaluate a player’s total contributions in one number. Is WAR a perfect advanced statistic? Well, no, of course not — most...
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There’s no baseball right now, and by the looks of recent CDC recommendations, baseball won’t be coming back anytime soon. So with all this free time on our hands, it’s more of an opportunity to look back on the most recent decade of New York Mets baseball even more than we already have. Although the Mets spent about half the decade in rebuild mode before reaching the playoffs...
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The current circumstances we’re in has brought about many weird things. Schools are closed, supermarket shelves are constantly empty, and we’re being encouraged to stay home (which, for me, will only work so long with an active three-and-a-half-year-old). The weirdest thing of all, though? We’re on the verge of St. Patrick’s Day and baseball is nowhere to be found. In a...
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It’s not every day that a major league baseball player in his pre-arbitration years gets rewarded monetarily for his efforts in the previous year. For the most part, it usually the opposite. There are examples of this every year — Jacob deGrom comes to mind before signing his contract extension — but more recently, Juan Soto and Jack Flaherty were in the news the other day...
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Around this time last year, I wrote an article that focused on how 2019 could finally be the breakout year we’ve been waiting for from Steven Matz. He ended up reaching a bunch of single-season career-high marks, but it didn’t exactly happen in the form of a breakout. After all, your general manager doesn’t bring in more competition for your rotation spot if you’re...
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