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If there’s one thing you can always count on a baseball player in a high-stress situation to be, it’s a sensitive weenie. Allow me to direct your attention to this moment, from yesterday’s game between the Giants and Padres. After the first pitch of his at-bat, Giants outfielder Angel Pagan noticed a piece of gum sitting in the batter’s box, and so he absentmindedly tossed the gum in Padres catcher…

Trevor Bauer was once a can’t miss pitcher prospect that I acquired in a trade proposed to me along with Mike Trout for Carlos Gonzalez in a keeper league. Bauer, who made his debut with the Diamondbacks later that year (2012), struggled with control and other issues and was traded to Cleveland. He’s now Cleveland’s No. 3 starter and still just 24 with loads of potential. His 2015 debut featured…

Don’t take Mark Laird’s word for it. Laird only thinks he knows the meaning behind the celebratory hand motion some of his LSU teammates make after hitting a double, triple or, even, a clutch single. “I think I overheard them talk about it. I may be wrong,” Laird said. “I haven’t really asked, but I think it means ‘You’re crazy for throwing to me.’” If you’ve watched LSU play a…

Adrian Gonzalez has already slugged 5 home runs for the Dodgers. (Getty) We’re not even a handful of games into the season, so if you’re fantasy team is slumping, don’t fret. There are close to 160 to go. The first weekend of the baseball season brings us to a new set of series. Remember, pitching staffs are getting toward the back end of the rotations right now, so that could…

Picking the right pitcher can either save your daily fantasy team or put it over the top in search of big money. While there is a lot of uncertainty at this early part of the season, these players should exceed their value with big games Friday.   Gio Gonzalez, Washington Nationals ($9,100) It’s always difficult to trust a pitcher like Gio Gonzalez, who has put together…

The New York Times on Wednesday published an op-ed with the headline “Don’t Let Statistics Ruin Baseball.” Some of the baseball nuts at FiveThirtyEight staff couldn’t contain themselves after reading it. Here’s an edited transcript of our Slack conversation. cwick: This is the kind of thing that gets our attention around here. A sample of the op-ed: “Thanks to ‘Moneyball’ and stats-driven fantasy leagues, advanced statistics have changed how fans…

M.L.B. is engaged in a full-court press to turn players such as Mike Trout into national celebrities a post-Jeter world. Credit Photograph by Stephen Dunn / Getty The New York Yankees opened the 2015 season with a dispiriting 6—1 loss at home, but perhaps more dispiriting, to the team and to Major League Baseball, was the absence of one man: Derek Jeter, who retired last year after two decades as…

Starting pitcher projected Game Scores for April 9 2014 Statistics Past 21 Days GS Team Name T Opp W-L ERA WHIP W-L ERA WHIP 68* Matt Harvey R @Wsh — — — — — — 67 Stephen Strasburg R NYM 14-11 3.14 1.12 — — — 55 A.J. Burnett R @Cin 8-18 4.59 1.41 — — — 55 CC Sabathia L Tor 3-4 5.28 1.48 — — — 53 Ian…

This might be the most sickening stat of all, if you’re a Clemson fan: yes, the Tigers won two of three over South Carolina, which always counts as brownie points. But Clemson is 2-5 against all other in-state programs, with wins over Wofford and Furman but losses to Winthrop, Coastal Carolina, Presbyterian and Charleston Southern.

The New York Times on Wednesday published an op-ed with the headline “Don’t Let Statistics Ruin Baseball.” Some of the baseball nuts at FiveThirtyEight staff couldn’t contain themselves after reading it. Here’s an edited transcript of our Slack conversation. cwick: This is the kind of thing that gets our attention around here. A sample of the op-ed: “Thanks to ‘Moneyball’ and stats-driven fantasy leagues, advanced statistics have changed how fans…

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Baseball’s Major Leagues want to bring America’s pastime into the present – not that the game will change that much. Chicago’s Wrigley Field is under renovation, but it’s still Wrigley Field. New rules are meant to make the game move faster, but it is still that timeless game with no clock. Baseball also faces pressure for a deeper change – making those in the LGBT community feel…

If a loaded slate of MLB games tends to overwhelm you in daily fantasy baseball, we have just the time for you to play at DraftKings—evenings of getaway Thursdays. With just three night games on tap, the variables are reduced and you can dive more deeply into the minutiae, as we do below, outlining the best pitcher stats and picks for April 9. Starting Pitchers CC Sabathia, New York Yankees…

Longtime Hanover Park head baseball coach Dave Minsavage died Thursday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Minsavage, The Star-Ledger’s State Coach of the Year in 2006, led the Hornets for 19 seasons before taking a leave of absence prior to the start of this season. In his tenure, Hanover Park won three sectional titles, a Morris County Tournament championship in 2003 and the state Group 2 title in 2006. Minsavage’s…

A lightning bolt streams from the storm near Medicine Bow, Kan., on Wednesday evening. (Bruce Bishop via Twitter) With 200 reports of severe weather, eight of which were tornado sightings, Wednesday was the busiest severe weather day of the year thus far. Severe thunderstorms are forecast to continue through Friday in the central and eastern U.S. as an upper level low shifts east. Severe weather outlook for Thursday, April 9,…

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→ April 8, 2015 Every Major League Baseball team starts the season with the same record, but it doesn’t take long to know whether a team will be a contender or a cellar-dweller. With RBI Baseball 15, I knew a championship wasn’t in the cards after my second at-bat. After David Murphy started my first exhibition as the New York Mets against the Boston Red Sox with a blistering single…

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Ah, but 18 runs — that was in play. The Cowboys charged toward — and past — that figure, eventually posting a 24-2 rout that set a record for the widest margin of victory in the series. Oklahoma State, ranked as high as No. 9 nationally, batted around twice, totaled 20 hits, four extra-base hits and nine walks, all pleasing to a big crowd of 3,111 at Allie P. Reynolds…