How to best make sense of the recent proliferation of information on minor league hitters, specifically power metrics? This is a question I’ve been struggling with in the last few weeks/months (does anyone keep track of time anymore?) regarding minor league fly ball distance, exit velocity, and exit velocity on

Last week, I generated an expected home runs per fly ball measure (xHR/FB) for minor leaguers based on their average fly ball distance and average exit velocity. The logic is this: a minor leaguer can be expected to hit a certain number of home runs per fly ball given their

Wander Franco (Left photograph: Rob Tringali / MLB Photos via Getty Images); Julio Rodriguez (Right photograph: wv_power, The Official Instagram for the West Virginia Power) Over the past year, I’ve developed translations that convert minor league statistics to their equivalent MLB statistics. I’ve also built aging curves to project when

Check out the episode at BlogTalkRadio! Patrick returns from the bathroom in Japan with thoughts on toilets. Signings: Mike Trout, Chris Sale, Alex Bregman, Blake Snell, Brandon Lowe, Eloy Jimenez, Justin Verlander. Rumors: Kimbrel to Milwaukee or Atlanta? Retirement: Ichiro Options: Ian Happ, Willie Calhoun, Nick Senzel Winner Winner Chicken

WELCOME BACK!!! Despite a scorching hot stove (I can’t believe the player you’re thinking of did or did not sign with the team you thought they would!), January and February can be some of the darkest months of the year (figuratively and literally). But fear not, restless readers. The Dynasty

The following is an overview of The Dynasty Guru Experts League (Volume II) initial draft. This is a 20 team, 5×5 league that utilizes OPS and SV+HLD instead of AVG and SV. We thought it might be good to put our money where our mouth is and have a league

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thedynastygurupodcast/2018/02/26/the-dynasty-guru-podcast-episode-24-shortstop-rankings-and-listener-questions The Baseball Boys are back! First half: the guys talk about the Rays and their recent moves, the Red Sox and the JD Martinez signing, and Eric Hosmer’s deal in San Diego. Second half: the guys break down the shortstop rankings: Keaton has angry Jean Segura takes and Patrick

It’s been a slow off-season. Like, a really slow off-season. With the hot stove frigid, fantasy baseball players haven’t had many ways to quench their thirst, unless they’ve thrown themselves head-first into football, basketball, or hockey. January and February can be some of the darkest months of the year (figuratively

It’s the time of the year where we offer congratulations to those of you brave dynasty league owners that survived the offseason. The greatness that 2016 will surely offer is upon us and that means we’ll be spending the next six weeks moving our way through the positional landscape, offering thoughts

Congratulations on surviving another off-season. Now that the new year is upon us, it’s time to spend the next month  traveling across the positional landscape, labeling players with numbers that correspond to their value. It’s the very definition of freedom. A ton of hard work was put into these rankings,