Making Daniel Murphy the 2016 MVP
Was Daniel Murphy, who played a bad defensive second base all year and finished 2nd in MVP voting, robbed? Not…
Max Scherzer and Net Present Value
A quick note on what Scherzer‘s deferral really means. I already did a longer analysis of the move and what…
Do LOBs Mean Anything?
Watching your team leave runners on base is insanely frustrating. After Thursday night’s loss, where the Nats only managed to score…
If PECOTA Doesn’t Have Anything Nice to Say…
Baseball Prospectus released their PECOTA numbers this week, and obviously there is a ton of data. At first I tried…
Getting James Loney, In ScatterPlot
Yesterday I went over a cast of LH first basemen, in order to discover and report who might be available…
A Primer on What’s Important
Perhaps the greatest post I’ve ever seen on the specifics of what is important and what isn’t in the mind…
Guzman vs. Kennedy
Middle infield rumors have been flying around since way back in September and October. First Ian Desmond was going to…
Runs Created in the Middle
The Nats lineup is looking pretty potent these days, just like it did at the beginning of the season. Back…
Nats Heating Up, Trades Aren’t
The Nats have now won four games in a row, which on the season is… their longest win streak. Yikes.…
WARP Speed
I was out of the country last week, which is why there was no post, and now it’s the All…