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  • • Get Closer
    Tom Tango gives some insight into positioning in the batter’s box: #Statcast How close should batters stand to edge of plate? You will not be surprised to learn: batter should stand as close as possible. Every inch matters Metric I'm using: Best Speed, which is (for each batter) their 50% hardest hit balls Image from: […]...2025
  • • Talking Bunting
    Bill James and Tom Tango talk about how to study when to bunt: So (this totally made up illustration) is what we are talking about. Let's say for a PARTICULAR BATTER, their wOBA is .350 when they swing away and .450 when they bunt, when the 1B/3B are playing deep (red line). Naturally they SHOULD […]...2025
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  • Assorted thoughts on the Braves’ commitment to Jurickson Profar
    • Assorted thoughts on the Braves’ commitment to Jurickson Profar
    Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Did the Braves wiggle out of their comfort zone? Does it matter? I considered titling this post, “So Profar, So Good,” but, that seemed to make little sense at this juncture, and that was a headline-in-the-sand I’m not willing to cross at this point. Did the Atlanta Braves do well by signing Jurickson Profar to a three-year, $42 million de...2025
  • • Understanding Pitch Values
    Tom Tango posts a very nice explanation of the measure of a particular pitch. He breaks out wOBA, which only gets calculated on the final pitch, versus the run value, which is calculated on all pitches of that type. He gives the example of Yusei Kikuchi and his four seam fastball. Overall, the pitch is […]...2024
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  • • Stanton’s Swing
    Tom Tango analyzes Giancarlo Stanton swing, charting acceleration and bat speed on contact and misses. He gives us an idea of just how much force Stanton generates: Math interlude: We can see he gains just over 3 mph (3.2) per frame, or 3.2 mph per 3.33 msec of acceleration. 3.2 mph is 4.7 feet per […]...2024
  • • ERA Adjusted WAR
    Via Tom Tango’s Twitter feed: This is an EXTREMELY detailed, expansive and well thought-out approach. Well done on the whole crew there I'd have to give it MUCH more thought and analysis to go through what they did. But it definitely deserves a tremendous amount of eyes from the saber community https://t.co/xT0aFLzI2j — Tangotiger ? […]...2024

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Tom Tango injury and suspension

  • The Cubs should be stealing more bases
    • The Cubs should be stealing more bases
    Nico Hoerner steals second base against the Twins | Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A closer look at the team’s running tendencies relative to the rest of the league this season. One of the big developments last season was the dramatic increase in stolen bases league-wide as the rules were adjusted to encourage teams to run more. How much more did teams run? A lot. In 2022 ...2024
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  • • Games of the Day
    The Braves try to close the gap with the Phillies a little more before September as Max Fried takes on Zack Wheeler. Despite injuries that hurt his K and BB rates, Fried still does an excellent job of preventing home runs. Wheeler trails Chris Sale of the Braves in Tom Tango Cy Young points, so […]...2024
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  • Performance versus projections at the one-third mark
    • Performance versus projections at the one-third mark
    Michael McLoone-USA TODAY Sports How have Brewers players stacked up against preseason projections? During the preseason, a reader (forgive me, I forgot who) expressed curiosity about how the Brewers might do compared to what the popular projection systems predicted before the season. With two months of the season and about one-third of the games played so far, I thought I’d check in and c...2024
  • • Verlander on Injuries
    Tom Tango produces a nice graph to support Justin Verlander‘s take on the causes of pitching injuries. This is what Verlander is talking about… in 2008, his range in speed of fastball was pretty wide, while in 2023, it was very tight. In either case, he averaged 94, out-of-hand https://t.co/xFkZ6lBpwf pic.twitter.com/d0ANk17WZG — Tangotiger ? (@tangotiger) […]...2024
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  • Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
    • Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
    Can’t say I care for the Red Sox city connect jerseys. I mean, they’re fine-ish, just not for Boston | Photo by Nick Grace/Getty Images Out last week, out next week, but here this week At The Star, Jaylon Thompson profiles Cole Ragans: Sweeney said the Royals did their homework on Ragans. They evaluated his entire makeup prior to acquiring him from the Rangers. The process took a couple ...2023
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  • • Sam Hilliard won’t keep this up all year, but the Braves still may have found something interesting.
    Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Looking at the curious case of Sam Hilliard. Ok, let’s get this part out of the way right from the start. Sam Hilliard is currently running a 166 wRC+ with a 39% strikeout rate and a .545 batting average on balls in play. That profile hasn’t exactly a zero percent chance of maintaining itself over a full season, or even half a season. This is a classic “A...2023
  • • Royals Rumblings - News for February 22, 2023
    It’s 2/22; make a wish!! Anne Rogers’s latest dispatch from Spring Training focuses on the drills of new infield coach José Alguacil: Alguacil’s drills aren’t what the Royals are used to; Witt quickly embraced the use of high-velocity machines to take ground balls. Quatraro also brought over a drill that the Royals did before batting practice on Tuesday: A coach flipped a ball to the manager, who...2023
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  • • The Best of FanGraphs: April 3-7, 2017
    Each week, we publish north of 100 posts on our various blogs. With this post, we hope to highlight 10 to 15 of them. You can read more on it here. The links below are color coded — green for FanGraphs, brown for RotoGraphs, dark red for The Hardball Times and blue for Community Research. MONDAYHow Brian Cashman Sold the Yankees’ Rebuild, by Travis Sawchick I won’t spoil the surprise for you. Grea...2017
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  • • Andrew McCutchen at Full Strength Paves Way for Monster Year in 2016
    2016
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  • • MLB Power Rankings: Dissecting Each Team's Postseason Chances
    2015
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Tom Tango lifestyle

  • • Royals Rumblings - News for July 12, 2023
    We have achieved Wednesday! Rockies catcher Elias Díaz hit a late-game homer to give the National League their first All-Star Game win since 2012, when it was in Kansas City. Rob Manfred talked to reporters about a variety of topics (more in ESPN links below), including bringing the ABS challenge system from the minors to the majors someday: Manfred also addressed a few other big-picture items. R...2023
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Timeline

  • 2025
    "How he did it Two Decembers ago, Tom Tango published on his blog a thing that I am continually surprised doesn’t get more play everywhere: predictive wOBA."

  • 2024
    "At least per game score (version two, a Tom Tango 2016 update of Bill James’ original musing): pretty darn good."

  • 2023
    "- Tom Tango So, in general, swinging less is better, but not all of the Royals are very good at that, and the young players are not improving at it so far this year."

  • 2017
    "“We’re in the third inning,” Tom Tango, one of the minds behind Statcast, told Passan."

  • 2016
    " Written by Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin, Sky Kalkman wrote at Beyond the Box Score that The Book highlights how "the [Number 2] hitter comes to bat in situations about as important as the [Number 3] hitter, but more often."

  • 2015
    "It was created by Tom Tango (and notably used in The Book) to measure a hitter’s overall offensive value, based on the relative values of each distinct offensive event."

  • 2014
    "In his 2007 publication The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, Tom Tango used data from 1999-2002 to show how hitters beat up pitchers when seeing them a third time."

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Tom Tango trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • Assorted thoughts on the Braves’ commitment to Jurickson Profar
    2025
  • • 2025 Musings Marcels
    The 2025 Musings Marcels for batters await your download. These are based on Tom Tango’s formulas, and offer a very simple, non-park adjusted look into the future. Let’s take a look at what might happen in 2025. The Marcels project only two players with a .400+ OBP, Aaron Judge at .415 and Juan Soto at […]...2024
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  • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
    • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
    It rarely got better than what Garrett Crochet offered this year on Opening Day. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports In White Sox history? 79th percentile ... not bad for a first career effort Yes, it’s been an incredibly long week and especially endless day, but Garrett Crochet’s surprise excellence on Opening Day — pitching at least one inning and exceedingly sharper than anyone had th...2024
  • • Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
    2023
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  • • The Royals are the only team trying to use five infielders
    Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports The shift is not necessarily dead. Last year, teams employed a defensive shift one-third of the time, stacking one side of the infield with most or all of their infielders. It has become a trending strategy in recent years, causing batting averages to plummet. To counteract this and give offenses a boost, Major League Baseball banned radical defensive shift...2023
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for February 22, 2023
    2023
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  • • MLB Power Rankings: Dissecting Each Team's Postseason Chances
    2015
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Tom Tango stats and results

  • • Assorted thoughts on the Braves’ commitment to Jurickson Profar
    2025
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  • • The Cubs should be stealing more bases
    2024
  • • Games of the Day
    2024
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  • • Games of the Day
    Chris Sale now leads the NL in Tom Tango Cy Young points as he leads the Braves against the Brewers and Freddy Peralta. Sale hit 17 wins three times in his career. At 13 wins today, he has a great chance of topping that number. Peralta holds opponents to a .224 BA thanks in large […]...2024
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  • • Games of the Day
    Find a sports bar with the MLB package for lunch and turn in to Detroit at Atlanta were Tarik Skubal faces Reynaldo Lopez. Skubal does well in Tom Tango Cy Young points in a close and dense AL race, showing an impressive combination of power and control. Lopez owns a 1.69 ERA, well below his […]...2024
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  • • Performance versus projections at the one-third mark
    2024
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  • In defense of the contact play
    • In defense of the contact play
    Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images It confounds fans. But there’s math behind it. Last night, the Royals had been unable to get much offense going against Blue Jays lefty Yusei Kikuchi. When Adam Frazier doubled off reliever Erik Swanson in the seventh, they had an opportunity to cut into the 5-2 deficit. Frazier advanced to third on a fly ball hit by Kyle Isbel, and with one out, he had a ter...2024
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  • • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
    2024
  • • Games of the Day
    The Yankees try to salvage their season as they head to Tampa Bay to play the wild card leading Rays. Gerrit Cole takes on Zack Eflin. Cole is the AL leader in Tom Tango Cy Young Points. The point system is a proxy for how writers will vote on the award. Note that the scores […]...2023
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  • • Games of the Day
    The Twins send Sonny Gray against the Phillies and Ranger Suarez. Gray is 5-5 despite a well deserved 3.18 ERA. His rate stats are excellent across the board. Using Tom Tango’s assigned wins, we see that an 8-5 record is more realistic for him. Suarez limits walks and power, but the power he has allowed […]...2023
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
    2023
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for July 12, 2023
    2023
    Read about Elias Díaz
  • • Swing decisions and sending players back to the minors
    Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images I am actually more worried about MJ Melendez than any of the other young players Swing decisions have become a topic this year for a couple of reasons. On the positive side, Nick Pratto has talked about them helping to get back to the majors, and actually producing as well. On the negative side, Bobby Witt has not progressed as many o...2023
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Top Tom Tango news

  • • Andrew McCutchen at Full Strength Paves Way for Monster Year in 2016
    2016
  • • Swing decisions and sending players back to the minors
    2023
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  • • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
    2024
  • • The Cubs should be stealing more bases
    2024
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  • • Statcast’s Influence To Increase
    The Statcast revolution in Major League Baseball is merely in its inchoate stages, as Yahoo Sports’ Jeff Passan details in a must-read piece. “We’re in the third inning,” Tom Tango, one of the minds behind Statcast, told Passan. Statcast, which MLB.com notes “is capable of measuring previously unquantifiable aspects of the game,” became available in…...2017
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  • • In defense of the contact play
    2024
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  • • Buster Posey, Bruce Bochy Are the Keys to Giants' World Series Comeback
    2014
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  • .300 Ain't What It Used To Be
    • .300 Ain't What It Used To Be
    Editor’s note: We’re resending this out because a photo of Tony Gwynn’s son ran in the original version of this piece. OK, we all know that batting average isn’t the best analytical tool when it comes to determining a player’s value. Our pal Tom Tango will tell you that purely in terms of...2023
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  • • Ranking Skenes
    Back on July 30, 2024, Tom Tango and I disagreed over where Paul Skenes ranked among starting pitchers. Tom put him seventh, the Bill James Ranking put him 89th. Skenes is now 7th best starting pitcher in MLB He is essentially on a pace over the next few years to be somewhere between Dwight Gooden […]...2024
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  • • Games of the Day
    2024
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  • • Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
    2024
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  • • Lineup Spread
    Tom Tango uses wOBA to measure the spread in runs per game between the best and worst lineups a team can put on the field. He gets a value between 0.2 and 0.25 runs per game: Now, let’s swap the first batter and the last batter. What happens? Well, instead of 5 PA going to […]...2024
  • • Playoffs Today
    The 2023 World Series begins in Texas tonight at 8 PM EDT as the Diamondbacks take on the Rangers. Zac Gallen faces Nathan Eovaldi. Gallen led the National League in Tom Tango Cy Young Points in a rather weak field in for NL Pitchers. He pitched fine in the first two rounds of the playoffs, […]...2023
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  • • Betts Versus Acuna
    Tom Tango posted this about the NL MVP race between Ronald Acuna and Mookie Betts: They really are in reality close, but the old-school look at the data is still trumping the new-school.This isn't 1983, but we're probably at 2003 in this discussion, if the view is Acuna at 3:1 over Betts. https://t.co/x1YBNspKlA— Tangotiger ? […]...2023
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
    2023
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for July 12, 2023
    2023
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  • • Free Basing
    Tom Tango looks at the history of spring training stolen bases and the effect of the new pick-off rule and bigger bases. Since 2007, spring training oscillated between a higher attempt rate and a higher success rate. Attempts go up, success goes down, so the next season, runners do a better job of picking their […]...2023
  • • Royals Rumblings - News for February 22, 2023
    2023
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