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Matt Marton-Imagn Images Matthew Boyd has exceeded most outside expectations. Selected in the sixth round of the 2013 draft out of Oregon State University, the 34-year-old southpaw was ranked 29th when our 2015 Toronto Blue Jays Top Prospects list was published that March. He’d pitched well the previous year — a 3.17 ERA between High-A and Double-A — but as our then-lead prospect analyst Kiley…

: Atlanta’s 2026 resurgence has been fuelled by better-than-expected performance from a lot of players – some less unsurprising (Matt Olson, Drake Baldwin, Chris Sale, the Lee-Suarez-Iglesias pen) and some much more so (Dom Smith, Mauricio Dubon, Bryce Elder, Martin Perez, and, to an extent, Ozzie Albies). Who’s doing it with smoke and mirrors, and who’s really playing better? You Aren’t a…

The current standings between the two leagues are quite lopsided entering the second full week of May. Just three teams in the American League have winning records, while all five clubs in the NL Central are above .500. Then again, that division, which was not supposed to be all that strong entering the season, is doing a lot to prop up the National League as a whole; seven of the remaining 10…

: A few names that come to mind are players who mostly play vs LHP but are already getting more and more starts vs RHP due to increased production. Trending in that direction are … You Aren’t a FanGraphs Member It looks like you aren’t yet a FanGraphs Member (or aren’t logged in). We aren’t mad, just disappointed. We get it. You want to read this article. But before we let you get back to it,…

Scott Marshall-Imagn Images To start things off, here’s a riddle for you. Which of these two batting lines would you prefer? Mystery Batters, Selected Stats Batter BB% K% Barrel% HardHit% SwStr% GB/FB LD% Batter A 12.9% 30.9% 18.3% 50.9% 14.2% 0.88 19.1% Batter B 22.2% 32.7% 18.8% 59.4% 13.3% 0.89 23.2% They’re similar, no doubt. I’m pretty sure you’d pick Batter B, though. He walks a lot…

  Brooklyn-based Jay Jaffe is a senior writer for FanGraphs, the author of The Cooperstown Casebook (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) and the creator of the JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score) metric for Hall of Fame analysis. He founded the Futility Infielder website (2001), was a columnist for Baseball Prospectus (2005-2012) and a contributing writer for Sports Illustrated (2012-2018). He has been a recurring…

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It seems like almost every team in baseball is dealing with some sort of injury crisis right now. Of course, key players are bound to get hurt during the long marathon of the regular season, yet these injuries are still having a considerable impact on both the standings and our evaluations of the affected clubs. Our power rankings use a modified Elo rating system. If you’re familiar with chess…