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• 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 […]...2024Read about Aaron Judge news
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• The Cubs should be stealing more basesNico 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 ...2024Read about Nico Hoerner news -
• 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 […]...2024Read about Max Fried news
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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 […]...2024Read about Paul Skenes news
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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 […]...2024Read about Chris Sale news
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• Historical Hall Futures
Tom Tango thought it would be a good exercise to run the data from the previous post for 20 year periods in the past. Here’s the list from players active in 1964: Batter Age 24 Season PA HOF Al Kaline 1959 3776 Yes Vada Pinson 1963 3552 Mickey Mantle 1956 3491 Yes Orlando Cepeda 1962 […]...2024Read about Mickey Mantle news
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• The Cubs should be stealing more bases
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• Performance versus projections at the one-third markMichael 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...2024Read about Freddy Peralta injuries -
• 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) […]...2024Read about Justin Verlander injuries
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023Can’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 ...2023Read about Red Sox injuries -
• 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...2023Read about Sam Hilliard injuries
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• 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...2023Read about Anne Rogers injuries
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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...2017Read about Brian Cashman injuries
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• Andrew McCutchen at Full Strength Paves Way for Monster Year in 2016
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• MLB Power Rankings: Dissecting Each Team's Postseason Chances
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• 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...2023Read about Elias Díaz
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"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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• 2025 Musings Marcels
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• 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...2024Read about Garrett Crochet trade rumors -
• Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 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...2023Read about Alex Pavlovic trade rumors
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 22, 2023
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• MLB Power Rankings: Dissecting Each Team's Postseason Chances
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Tom Tango stats and results
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• The Cubs should be stealing more bases
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• Games of the Day
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• Games of the Day
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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 […]...2024Read about Tarik Skubal stats
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• Performance versus projections at the one-third mark
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• In defense of the contact playPhoto 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...2024Read about Blue Jays stats -
• Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
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• 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 […]...2023Read about Gerrit Cole stats
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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 […]...2023Read about Sonny Gray stats
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• Lackluster Cy Leaders
Tom Tango notice that the Cy Young points for the league leaders were rather low this season. Here’s the lowest score total by the league leaders in full seasons since 1920: SeasonCombined League Leaders Points2023105.61950150.21929153.32021157.51938158.62006158.61925160.31961162.62016165.82007166.11960168.21951169.21987170.71958172.31982172.72003173.11949173.92005174.81984175.91996175.91983...2023Read about Cy Young stats
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 12, 2023
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• 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...2023Read about Keith Gillett Icon
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• Andrew McCutchen at Full Strength Paves Way for Monster Year in 2016
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• Swing decisions and sending players back to the minors
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• Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
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• The Cubs should be stealing more bases
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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…...2017Read about Jeff Passan
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• In defense of the contact play
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• Buster Posey, Bruce Bochy Are the Keys to Giants' World Series Comeback
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• .300 Ain't What It Used To BeEditor’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...2023Read about Tony Gwynn
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• Ranking Skenes
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• Games of the Day
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• Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
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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
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• 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, […]...2023Read about World Series
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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 ? […]...2023Read about NL MVP
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• Royals Rumblings - News for August 11, 2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 12, 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
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• Royals Rumblings - News for February 22, 2023
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• Performance versus projections at the one-third mark
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• Just how good was Garrett Crochet’s Opening Day start?
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