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Joe West Tosses 2011
NotGraphs’ Highly Reputable and Totally Real Think Tank has personally informed me know that as 2011 ends, so too does our first full calendar year on the immaculate Internet. We had fun this year. We...
View ArticleSynonyms for Average
Your spectrum of adequacy, from regrettable to decent. Baseball writers, enjoy: Regrettable Who? Participatory Just a guy Tolerable Unobjectionable Adequate Passable Sufficient Mediocre Ordinary...
View ArticleFifteen Home-Run Calls That Are Still Available
Onions, indeed. As we enter the 2012 season, many broadcasters will undoubtedly be looking — like the players whose actions they’ll be narrating — will be looking to bring their A game, give 110%, and...
View ArticleVideo: “Pete Rose Here Now”
From the Worldwide Leader: I never watched Pete Rose play baseball. He was before my time. What I know about Rose comes mostly from books, most notably Joe Posnanski’s “The Machine.” Look, I don’t know...
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Double-Entendre of the Year: Backdoor Cutter
It’s with great pleasure — and a blood alcohol content cheerfully north of zero — that the editoriat of NotGraphs announces the Double-Entendre of the Year for 2012: backdoor cutter. The...
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The Game is Real
FanGraphs: the Game is real. I have proof. First, how else can you explain my Giants first baseman? He’s ‘hitting’ .235/.314/.350… and Giants’ first basemen are hitting .207/.312/.336. My dude has a...
View ArticleOmar Vizquel Hates Flying American Airlines
I mean, he really hates everything about the experience. American is the worst fucking airline in the whole world — Omar Vizquel (@VizquelOmar13) July 9, 2012 Omar’s on vacation, goddamnit! By the way,...
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New NotGraphs Stats, Investigative Teams
In a series of posts yesterday, some longer than others, Davids Appleman and Cameron introduced new stats, exclusive to FanGraphs, that help us to evaluate pitcher success. The discerning baseball fan...
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Recent Publications by Our Totally Real Think Tank
Our highly reputable and totally real think tank has published five papers of late in assorted journals. Here they are, as follows: Old Dog, New Tricks: Encased Meats at the Modern Baseball Park...
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Possible Futures for NotGraphs Writers
I do not care much for politics. If I wanted to watch people hurl bile at one another over issues that divide the populous, I’d just read baseball blogs. But regardless of your political affiliations,...
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Taking Sabermetrics to the Streets
A simple request this weekend begat a nerdgasm: Maury Brown asked for favorite concert on twitter, and just a little listicle tickling jarred something loose. It wasn’t so much the particulars of the...
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Yesterday’s Most Transcendent Pitch, Objectively Perhaps
Because it’s impossible to watch every game — and sometimes even just one game — on any given day, it’s equally impossible to make a judgment as to which single pitch might have been that same day’s...
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