Xander Bogaerts, Through 18 Games

We got our first look at Xander Bogaerts: Major League Shortstop on August 20, 2013; an 0-for-3 effort against the San Francisco Giants. Bogaerts was fresh off of decimating minor league hitting – as he had been known to do – to the tune of a .374 wOBA in AAA, and we...

Stats are Ruining Baseball, Says Curmudgeon

Oh, Scott DeSmit.  You’ve found Doc Brown, stolen his DeLorean, revved it up to 88 MILES PER HOUR (!!!), and driven the time machine back to 2003–to where, you presumably wrote this article.  The stats/traditionalist war never gets old because it’s...