Most pundits picked the Washington Nationals to win the National League East if not the National League championship or World Series. The Nationals are loaded with young, high-upside talent that have already shown what they can do at the big …
Through Friday Chris Johnson has a ridiculously high .430 batting average on balls in play (BABIP) this season. His BABIP is the highest in the majors among players who qualify for the rate-stat leaderboards. This suggests that on batted balls, …
I’ll admit it: coming into the Cardinals series, I was less than confident in the Braves. St. Louis has one of, if not the, best team in baseball this year. We’re an injury-plagued team swinging rubber bats. I would …
It’s hard to believe this is Tim Hudson’s 9th season with the Braves. He is the veteran leader of the Braves’ staff, if not the entire team following the retirement of Chipper Jones. With Hudson’s season-ending ankle injury, how much …
Baseball Reference had Andrelton Simmons at 3.1 Wins Above Replacement (WAR) and Freddie Freeman at 2.8 WAR at the All-Star break.
Fangraphs had Freeman at 2 WAR and Simmons at 1.7 WAR.
Baseball Prospectus had Freeman at 2.23 Wins Above …
