FanGraphs Baseball » Matthew Kory

We’ll start with hitters, unless you decide not to read this, in which case I’ll just start with hitters all by myself.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/absurd-early-season-leaderboards-update-now/

The way these things – meaning “baseball” – go, the Orioles probably won’t be undefeated for long. Baseball is all about losing. The best teams lose a lot. The worst teams lose a lot a ...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-orioles-are-ridiculous-but-how-ridiculous-are-they/

A hundred and fifty-four days. That’s how long we’ve been wandering in the wilderness. That’s a long time, and especially so when you remember that the wilderness isn’t acres and acres of...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/what-we-can-learn-from-the-first-game-of-the-season/

Here’s a list of the last 11 players selected first overall in the draft, in order of most recent to least: Dansby Swanson Brady Aiken Mark Appel Carlos Correa Gerrit Cole Bryce Harper Stephen ...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-potential-rejuvenation-of-matt-bush/

The New York Times has completed an investigation into the NFL’s concussion research and thus, by proxy, its public statements about the connection between playing professional football and con...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/baseballs-lesson-from-the-nfls-concussion-problem/

If Xander Bogaerts were a video game character you’d hold down the A button for three seconds and he’d start to glow red. Hitting for power is really easy when you’re glowing red. Bogaerts ...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/powering-up-with-xander-bogaerts/

History is amazing in that it matters tremendously and it matters not at all. This is an article about the Cubs so you know that history is a thing for them. On one hand they are the Cubs, baseba...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-cubs-and-the-best-start-ever/

You may not care about Marlon Byrd. Or Edwin Jackson. Or Dana Eveland. Or Josh Wilson. That’s a reasonable position to take, as none are remarkable players at this stage of their careers. And y...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-most-teams-ever-played-for-record-is-under-attack/

How much can a one-dollar bill buy? Well, one dollar’s worth, right? But, what happens to that dollar after you spend it? It goes to someone else and then they spend it and it goes to someone e...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-velocity-of-ballplayers/

Over the past few days you may have noticed about a billion pieces on Lonn Trost’s recent comments. In fact, I wrote one, too, and you’re reading it now. The difference is I’m less concern...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/on-baseball-and-elitism-and-the-yankees-and-lonn-trost/