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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss to FanGraphs author Ben Clemens in regards to the website’s ongoing efforts to mannequin staff depth and issue it into projections, then preview the 2024 Toronto Blue Jays (30:46) with The Athletic’s Kaitlyn McGrath, and the 2024 Cincinnati Reds (1:16:31) with The Athletic’s C. Trent Rosecrans. 2024 EW Season Preview Series ALBALCHWHOUBOSCLELAANYYDETOAKTBRKCRSEATORMINTEX NLATLCHCARIMIACINCOLNYMMILLADPHIPITSDPWSNSTLSFG .intro-team, .intro-team td font-family: lato, Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 20px; .int...

Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports Among different issues, we at FanGraphs are identified for our projections, particularly right now of yr. We prefer to assume that’s as a result of our projection techniques are good! But it’s price remembering that projections all the time embody uncertainly. ZiPS, for instance, displays a spread of projected outcomes based mostly on one million simulations of the approaching season, with the primary percentile representing the worst projected efficiency and the 99th percentile, one of the best. The numbers you see on our participant pages replicate the fiftieth percentile projection — the median projected end result — for every participant. For me, the enjoyable begins when the projections are dwell, as a result of I take advantage of them as a place to...

Robert Edwards-USA TODAY Sports In his current piece about umpire accuracy, Davy Andrews famous that plate umpires appropriately referred to as 99.26% of coronary heart zone pitches in 2023. When I first learn that quantity, I didn’t assume missed calls within the coronary heart zone warranted any nearer investigation. For most of us, ninety-nine level something is pretty much as good as 100; you don’t spend a lot time worrying in regards to the 0.01% of germs Purell can’t kill. Then once more, in case you had been to contemplate the sheer quantity of micro organism in your palms at any given second, you would possibly go for a second squirt of sanitizer. A tiny share of an amazing quantity remains to be going to be a fairly large quantity. The identical is true for missed calls withi...

D. Ross Cameron-USA TODAY Sports When the Cardinals signed Brandon Crawford to a one-year, $2 million deal earlier this week, the very first thing that popped into my thoughts was a two-word hashtag. I figured it wouldn’t be lengthy earlier than the Giants’ social media accounts would ship out the identical factor they at all times put up in response to the departure of a franchise icon: #ForeverGiant. Of course, #ForeverGiant is a public relations gimmick, a approach for the group to melt the blow for followers who're unhappy to see considered one of their favourite gamers retire or, worse, sporting one other group’s uniform. Yet within the case of Crawford, who grew up a Giants fan within the Bay Area and who turned the franchise’s all-time chief in video games performed at shortsto...

Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports When the Dodgers traded for Tyler Glasnow this offseason, he wasn’t the one participant the Rays despatched west. Manuel Margot additionally joined Los Angeles, the place he would to fill Jonny DeLuca’s previous position as a righty-hitting outfielder able to taking part in any of the three spots. Yet, Margot wasn’t precisely a comfortable match for the Dodgers; his inclusion within the commerce felt extra like a means for Tampa Bay to shed wage. It appeared doubtless that Los Angeles would flip him to a different staff earlier than the beginning of the season. That’s precisely what occurred on Monday, when the Dodgers despatched Margot and minor league infielder Rayne Doncon to the Twins in trade for minor league shortstop Noah Miller. Los Angeles ad...