Angels the magic kingdom: Trout, Ohtani, and Kershaw thirty miles south Astros bury our chances for signing Kershaw under centerfield, Tal’s Hill Cardinals best fans in baseball plus best pitcher in baseball under the same… Read more »
Posts by Andrew Patrick
Please click here for the full introduction/primer to this series. The Semien Report is an experimental effort to provide advanced fielding splits. Every week, I’m going to pull UZR, DRS, and DEF from Fangraphs for each… Read more »
Please click here for the full introduction/primer to this series. The Semien Report is an experimental effort to provide advanced fielding splits. Every week, I’m going to pull UZR, DRS, and DEF from Fangraphs for each… Read more »
You are Billy Beane. It is November, 2014. Your team has just completed one of the more epic collapses in baseball history. You had the best team by run differential by a wide margin in… Read more »
Please click here for the full introduction/primer to this series. The Semien Report is an experimental effort to provide advanced fielding splits. Every week, I’m going to pull UZR, DRS, and DEF from Fangraphs for each… Read more »
Please click here for the full introduction/primer to this series. The Semien Report is an experimental effort to provide advanced fielding splits. Every week, I’m going to pull UZR, DRS, and DEF from Fangraphs for each… Read more »
Please click here for the full introduction/primer to this series. The Semien Report is an experimental effort to provide advanced fielding splits. Every week, I’m going to pull UZR, DRS, and DEF from Fangraphs for each… Read more »
Please click here for the full introduction/primer to this series. The Semien Report is an experimental effort to provide advanced fielding splits. Every week, I’m going to pull UZR, DRS, and DEF from Fangraphs for… Read more »
Please click here for the full introduction/primer to this series. The Semien Report is an experimental effort to provide advanced fielding splits. Every week, I’m going to pull UZR, DRS, and DEF from Fangraphs for… Read more »
In 2015, the A’s acquired Marcus Semien in a trade with the Chicago White Sox. Despite reservations from what seemed like the entire world, the A’s elected to start him every day at shortstop. The… Read more »
It’s an even year; they’ll win it all. … Wait, I need more than that? Oh, well, I guess there’s more to the story then. While it is true that this is an even year,… Read more »
Andrew Patrick and Mike Carlucci join Brandon Lee to talk about Harper-Bautista-Gossage, break down our Wild Four tournament, preview the Angels/A’s/Giants/Dodgers, and play “Guess the ’06 BP Player Comment.”
To say the 2015 Oakland Athletics season was disappointing already reflects something about how you view them. After 2014, a year where they looked championship-caliber only to sputter into a Wild Card game exit, the… Read more »
After the recent signings of Jeff Samardzija and Johnny Cueto, the Giants look much stronger for 2015. As pointed out by Craig Goldstein on FanGraphs, the Giants infield looks excellent, but the Giants outfield looks… Read more »
Andrew Patrick, Eric Hartman, Mike Carlucci, and Brandon Lee hold a 5-round draft of their all-time favorite Simpsons episodes.
The following article also appeared on Baseball Prospectus. Barry Bonds was not a human being. He was a Kryptonian alien sent from another planet to destroy all baseballs. Like Superman, he was amazing at… Read more »
The A’s made a trade this week to shore up a need. They non-tended Ike Davis after a disappointing season, and traded for non-tender candidate Yonder Alonso. While Alonso is reportedly thrilled to be with… Read more »
After the recent signing of Rich Hill, the A’s had a bit of a logjam in the rotation. To clear way for some of their aspiring youngsters, it was widely assumed the A’s would trade… Read more »
Courtesy of wunderkind news breaker Robert Murray, we now know that the A’s signed Rich Hill to a one year contract worth 6 million dollars, with a guaranteed spot in the 2016 rotation. There are… Read more »
Writers Alex Crisafulli and Andrew Patrick join Ryan Sullivan to talk about the A’s, Cardinals, Nationals, and Curt Schilling.
Chris Bassitt has risen up from a 5th starter/reliever type to looking like a potential middle of the rotation guy with even higher upside. How has this happened? Is this real, or should we expect regression?… Read more »
Let’s get this out of the way: the A’s have been bad in close games, but their peripheral numbers suggest they’re better than their record. We all know that. The struggles the A’s have had… Read more »
All-Star Voting has come and gone. We’ve seen Royals go nuts, Twitter go crazy, and records set. How much of it, though, was real? Should we be up in arms about the trends? Is there… Read more »
With the advent of Instant Replay and Slow-Motion Camera technology, Major League Baseball is at a turning point. Fans, umpires, and front offices have unprecedented access to information regarding what’s happening on the field, and… Read more »
From the professional level, to public park leagues, to back yards, to couches and televisions, fathers (biological, chosen, or father-figures) and their children spend the summer months playing, discussing, watching, studying, and sharing the game… Read more »
OK, so this season hasn’t been excellent for the A’s. They’re among the worst teams in the league, and nothing short of a miracle would propel them back to the playoffs this year. Every trade… Read more »
Let’s go ahead and start with the backstory behind this post. In a game between the Yankees and Nationals on Wednesday, May 20th, Bryce Harper was at bat. A breaking pitch came in at the… Read more »
I want you to close your eyes for a moment. Imagine that you live in an alternate universe where the balls used in sports are conscious beings. These beings, all of a sudden, have a… Read more »
The A’s outfield has been a bit of a mixed bag this year. Coco Crisp played his first game of the season last night, Craig Gentry has been poor all year and Sam Fuld has cooled… Read more »
I was watching the April 20th game between the Oakland A’s and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim a couple days ago, and I enjoyed watching it. The A’s won the game 6-3, despite the… Read more »
