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Billy Heyen

William "Billy" Heyen
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A picture circulating on social media on Wednesday evening has gained traction before. On the right stands a baseball Hall of Famer in a Montreal Expos jersey. That’s Vladimir Guerrero, one of the greatest right fielders to ever play the game. On the left, one of the most adorable small

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Peter Alonso
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From the moment Pete Alonso’s sixth major league home run splash landed in Atlanta, he’s been on the national radar.

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The baseball fanatic in me, and hopefully in you, loves when Statcast releases a new tool to try and help us understand the game. This year, it’s publicly available “expected statistics.” For hitters, that means using the percentage of time a batted ball equals a certain result to determine what

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The 2018 leaderboard for barrels per batted ball event (min. 50 batted balls) reads like a home run derby bracket, or maybe a list of baseball’s strongest men. That’s especially true for the first 17 names. But at No. 18, right ahead of reigning American League MVP Mookie Betts, is

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The pre-arbitration extension is one of baseball’s popular new trends. But one might have slipped under the radar this offseason: the new deal signed by Tampa Bay Rays’ youngster Brandon Lowe. Late on March 19, Ken Rosenthal reported that Lowe had signed a 6 year, $24 million deal with Tampa

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Most of you that are out of contention in your favorite dynasty league have probably moved onto football. But you’ll be missing a big opportunity if that’s the case. The owners who are still alive may have dropped players who aren’t contributing now in order to make a run at

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The other day, I was trying to explain Statcast’s “barrels” metric to my dad. I basically rambled on about launch angle and exit velocity without really knowing what I was saying. Like all resourceful people in this age of the smartphone, I looked it up today, multiple days later. While

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In 2015, Jake Arrieta won the National League Cy Young Award. In a season when Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw had magnificent years, Arrieta was voted to have had an even better one. Let’s revisit some of his simple numbers from that year: 236 strikeouts, 1.77 ERA, 0.865 WHIP. Jake

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When Eric Thames signed with the Brewers in the offseason, I wrote a piece about what I thought about him. The positive development: I was right. Let’s hope that you followed my advice and went and acquired him. And although I love to toot my own horn, that’s not what

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The loyal readers of The Dynasty Guru surely have been tweaking their teams all offseason in preparation for this moment. If you’re stumbling across this article out of the blue, maybe you didn’t even realize there’s regular season baseball on today (there is). No matter, there’s still time to get

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