Category: By Josh Bookbinder
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Tornado: Will Warren and Spinning to Win
If this was eight years ago, Will Warren would be at the very top of everyone’s prospect lists. He has a tool that no one else in the minors does, and that evaluators in 2015 would have lost their minds over: he can spin it.
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Pack Mentality: how two base-stealers tore up D2 baseball in 2023
Together, Braylin Marine and Donovan Ford stole 89 bases. That puts them in 57th place on the stolen base leaderboard in D2 this year. Oops, my mistake. I meant 57th place on the team stolen base leaderboard. There are 249 D2 teams. Two players stole more bases than 192 of…
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Banana Split: Hurston Waldrep and the best pitch you haven’t seen yet
Calling Hurston Waldrep and “under the radar prospect” might not be fair; he’s a first round pick from an SEC program, he was the 19th ranked prospect by MLB.com going into the 2023 draft, and he showed out on a big stage for Florida in the 2023 men’s College World…
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What’s Going On With Shintaro Fujinami?
Shintaro Fujinami is two different baseball players. The first player is an absolutely electric arm with eye-popping velocity, a smooth but violent delivery on the mound, and 10 years of a quality NPB track record. The other is a pitcher with one of the worst ERAs in the majors in…
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The Worst Pitches In Baseball, 2023
There are plenty of pitches that wow us in baseball, that inspire our imaginations and make us wonder how anyone can hit at the big-league level. These are not those pitches.
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Dead-Ball Baseball, 2023: Chandler Simpson
Situational hitting, bunts, and stolen bases are king, and baseball is dominated by mid-calf tight pants-wearing stick figures who leave basepaths smoldering in their wake. Or something like all that, if you look at Chandler Simpson.
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The Man Who Hated Walks … For A Year
What do Garrett Anderson, Craig Monroe, David Dellucci, Travis Hafner, J.D. Drew, Geoff Blum, Jay Gibbons, Chris Snelling, and Gary Matthews have in common?
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Biggest Risers – Owen Caissie
Before the season, there was a great Fangraphs article and interview talking about Caissie’s impressive raw potential and lack of eye-popping production so far. Eight months later, the situation looks a little different.
Low Three Quarter Media 