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Episode 76: Top 20 Updates & Some Risers and Fallers
We figured it was a good time to update our current Top 20 in light of recent graduations and 2025 performance. Also, Esmerlyn a magician? what’s going on with the Twins? Is Gabriel Gonzalez good? Will we Wei-En on Lin? We ask and answer, to our best abilities, these questions
Prospects Traded at the Deadline! (American League Teams edition)
What a flurry of deals last week at the trade deadline! TDG team is here to introduce you to some of the prospects moved, and in some cases talk a bit about how their value is affected. A supporting post of prospects dealt to National League teams should get published
Is One Jon Berti Worth One Josh Hader? by @aok_fan
Hey everyone, your friendly, neighborhood dynasty dad here. I’m excited to announce our first guest writer of the season, Drew Klein (@aok-fan)! Drew helped us out on the latest episode of Join The Ranks and wrote a follow-up article for the site to check in on all the future Jon
Scout the Stat Line: Projected Top 1,000 Prospects, End of May Update
This prospect rankings article updates my offseason prospect projections piece, making use of my research on aging and the minor leagues featured at ‘Scout the Stat Line,’ a website Ross Jensen and I co-publish.
Scouting the Statline – The Top 300 Projected Hitters
Scouting the Statline focuses on using aging curves and major league equivalencies to generate peak projections. Peak projections put all minor and major leaguers on equal footing for comparative purposes, allowing us to easily build data-based rankings and leaderboards.
Scouting the Stat Line: Projected Peak Dynasty Performance for the Top 1,000 Prospects
This article continues an annual series providing peak projections for prospects. The projections are derived from peak major league equivalencies that use my (Jordan’s) aging curves and league translations to convert every player’s statistics to the same peak MLB (American League) baseline, making it easier to compare players at different
Scouting the Statline: New Player Revelations from the Leaderboard
It’s an exciting time! We’re finally getting to that time of the year of year when statistics and minor league performances start to make sense and have impactful meaning. The MLE Leaderboard is rounding into shape. Sure enough, one of the players highlighted in the last article I wrote, Jordan
Scouting the Stat Line: Peak Projections for Top Prospects After One Month of MILB Games
Vidal Brujan (Photograph: Twitter, @vidalbrujan) This article provides peak MLB projections for prospects incorporating their MILB statistics through the games of June 7th.
Scouting the Stat Line: Top 1000+ Hitters Under 30 by Peak Projected Dynasty Performance
Note: data update 3/8/2021. Peak wRC+ and dynasty z-score are unchanged. Other metrics updated, but they remain consistent with peak wRC+ and dynasty z-score. See ‘Table note’ for more detail.
The Bastard Son of xwOBA: xwOBA-lite for Minor Leaguers
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