Jeremy Hitch
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Jeremy Hitch

Fantasy Baseball

The Fangraphs and SABR linear weights point formats most of us play on Ottoneu closely correlates with weighted on base average, or WOBA. Thankfully, the “expected statistics” section at MLB’s Baseball Savant offers us an x-WOBA, which uses exit velocity, launch angle and historical data to “tell the story of

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Fantasy BaseballUncategorized

A list of purported MLB rule change proposals made the rounds Wednesday on the baseball twitterverse. The one that is fairly getting the most attention is the universal DH. The lines have long been drawn on this issue and I understand the majority no longer agrees with my position that

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Fantasy Baseball

Very late on a Sunday evening in the spring of 1995 I received a phone call with news that left me jazzed for months to come:  my extravagant bid of nearly all of my season’s free-agent acquisition budget, which was placed by leaving a message on an answering machine if

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