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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 4/29/25
12:00 Jay Jaffe: Good afternoon, folks, and welcome to another edition of my weekly chat! 12:02 Jay Jaffe: Yesterday I wrote about Eugenio Suárez’s four-homer game...
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The Incredible Platooning Jorge Polanco
Steven Bisig-Imagn Images Jorge Polanco has always been a good hitter. He has a career 111 wRC+, and since he started getting regular playing time in 2016, he’s finished with a wRC+ below 100 only...
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Can the Baltimore Orioles Salvage Their 2025 Season?
Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images The good news for the Baltimore Orioles is they won the first game of their three-game series against the first-place New York Yankees on Monday night. The bad news is the...
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Effectively Wild Episode 2315: Eight Bidets a Week
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Roki Sasaki and the Dodgers’ bidets, baseball in The Last of Us, The Simpsons, and the (future) work of Lin-Manuel Miranda, walk-off groundouts, two possibly...
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Tanner Scott, or an Impostor Who’s Stolen His Identity, Is Throwing a Ton of...
Jerome Miron-Imagn Images Tanner Scott is 15 appearances into the season, and by extension 15 appearances into his four-year, $72 million Dodgers contract, and a lot of things are working as normal. He...
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Nico Hoerner Is Flirting With Perfection
Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images Do you know how many leaderboards we have here at FanGraphs? I don’t. I genuinely don’t. Just in our main offense, defense, and pitching leaderboards, I counted 78....
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Sean Newcomb Addresses His 2015 FanGraphs Scouting Report
Eric Canha-Imagn Images Sean Newcomb has thus far fallen short of the high expectations he’d set coming out of college and during his first years of pro ball. Drafted 15th overall by the Los Angeles...
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Logan Gilbert’s Injury Means Another Patch for the Mariners Rotation
Steven Bisig-Imagn Images Particularly in light of their failure to upgrade their roster this winter, starting pitching is the foundation of the Seattle Mariners. Last year, four of their starters took...
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Carlos Correa Is Keeping the GIDP Alive
Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images Carlos Correa has grounded into six double plays this season. He doesn’t lead the league; that would be Junior Caminero, who has already racked up nine, putting him on pace...
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Scouting Today’s Call-Ups: Chase Petty, Noah Cameron, and AJ Blubaugh
Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images It’s not often that I take a pause from the prospect lists to write about individual call-ups, but we have three big league debuts on the docket for today, and I wanted to...
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