Few things separate successful baseball clubs from unsuccessful ones. Money is a big one. Good scouting helps. A knowledgeable front office is key. A tremendous amount of work goes into building a team, and all the players are asked to …
Jordan Schafer has a 35 Weighted Runs Created Plus (wRC+). Basically that just means he’s 65 percent worse than the average National League batter. Also, for all the credit he gets for playing solid defense, he’s actually accumulated -22 Defensive …
Before last season and early on last season whenever the Braves went into an offensive slump, much was made over the Braves propensity to strikeout often. The view was that they couldn’t manufacture runs, meaning they couldn’t score without the …
The Braves called up top catching prospect Christian Bethancourt last Saturday and have given him regular playing time since, with Evan Gattis on the DL. Bethancourt is known for a great arm, solid defensive tools, good raw power and good …
There has been a lot of talk about projections in the sabermetric internet world recently. Russell Carlton of Baseball Prospectus wrote an excellent article about trusting projections, with links to the other recent articles that set up this discussion, if …
