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October 8, 2012

Premium Article Playoff Prospectus: NLDS Game Two Recap: Reds 9, Giants 0

by Sam Miller

A brilliant start by Bronson Arroyo pushes the Giants to the brink of elimination.

October 7, 2012

Premium Article Playoff Prospectus: NLDS Game One Recap: Reds 5, Giants 2

by Sam Miller

The Reds lost the pitcher but won the battle. Now will they win the war?

October 6, 2012

Premium Article Playoff Prospectus: Giants-Reds Division Series Preview

by Sam Miller

Two lopsided teams face off in a series with no clear favorite.

BP Unfiltered: Playoffs and Home-Field Advantage

by Sam Miller

An interesting pair of numbers.

October 5, 2012

Premium Article Pebble Hunting: Miguel Cabrera's Retroactive Triple Crowns

by Sam Miller

We went 44 seasons without a Triple Crown. In how many of those seasons would Cabrera's 2012 have been good enough to win?

BP Daily Podcast: Effectively Wild Episode 57: The Teams That Will Win a World Series in the Next Five Years/Are Beat Writers Becoming More or Less Important?/The O's Start Saunders

by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller

Ben and Sam are joined by Marc Normandin, formerly of Baseball Prospectus and currently of SB Nation, to discuss which teams will win a World Series in the next five years, the changing role of beat writers, and Joe Saunders, the Orioles' starter in tonight's play-in game.

October 4, 2012

BP Daily Podcast: Effectively Wild Episode 56: A Very Special Simulpodcast with FanGraphs Audio

by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller

Ben and Sam join/are joined by Carson Cistulli of FanGraphs for a longest-ever episode about the worst predictions teams and players made about themselves, Bryce Harper's historical significance, and the baseball players who led the league in our hearts in 2012. We talked for almost an hour, so adjust your commutes accordingly.

October 3, 2012

Premium Article Pebble Hunting: A Very Good Team and a Very Bad Season

by Sam Miller

The Angels signed the best free-agent hitter and pitcher available, added the best rookie ever, and still missed the playoffs. Was it anyone's fault?

BP Unfiltered: What We Didn't See Coming

by Sam Miller

The A's success was so unexpected that we had plenty of time to say incriminatingly dismissive things about them.

BP Unfiltered: Nothing Can Be Uncontroversial (A Collection of Tweets)

by Sam Miller

There are people who believe Mike Trout doesn't deserve any awards this year.

BP Daily Podcast: Effectively Wild Episode 55: Shrinking Safeco/The Unpredictability of Japanese Players

by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller

Ben and Sam discuss the Mariners' decision to bring in (and lower) Safeco Field's fences, then talk about what the seasons of Tsuyoshi Nishioka and Norichika Aoki say about the difficulty of projecting the performance of Japanese imports.

October 2, 2012

BP Unfiltered: The Third-Best ERA in History

by Sam Miller

Meet Rob Murphy, the man on the all-time ERA leaderboard.

BP Daily Podcast: Effectively Wild Episode 54: Jeff Luhnow's Season-Ending Interview Idea/Why Players and Executives Disagree About the AL MVP

by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller

Ben and Sam discuss Jeff Luhnow's plan to interview his players at the end of each season, then talk about why players and front-office executives are backing different candidates for AL MVP.

October 1, 2012

Premium Article Pebble Hunting: The Uplifting, Inspirational Yankees

by Sam Miller

When you're cheering at full volume, it's easy to see October baseball as good vs. evil, but there's plenty of humanity on both sides.

BP Unfiltered: Edwin Starr and the NL MVP Race

by Sam Miller

The best MVP arguments taken from soul music lyrics of the 60s, 70s and early 80s.

BP Daily Podcast: Effectively Wild Episode 53: Is the Second Wild Card Working?/Explaining Mainstream Screeds Against Advanced Stats

by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller

Ben and Sam discuss whether the second wild card has made the stretch run more exciting, then talk about why papers publish columns that criticize advanced stats without making an effort to understand them.

September 28, 2012

Pebble Hunting: The Increasingly Optimistic Outlook for Pitching Prospects

by Sam Miller

There was a very good reason that Baseball Prospectus championed the idea that There's No Such Thing As A Pitching Prospect. But is that an outdated idea?

BP Daily Podcast: Effectively Wild Episode 52: Oakland's All-Rookie Rotation/Baseball's Ever-Rising Strikeout Rate

by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller

Ben and Sam discuss whether the A's all-rookie rotation bodes well for their future, then talk about whether the average strikeout rate has risen too high.

September 27, 2012

BP Daily Podcast: Effectively Wild Episode 51: What the Rockies Knew About Ubaldo/The Eternal Torii Hunter/Declining Dan Haren

by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller

Ben and Sam discuss the decline of Ubaldo Jimenez and whether the Rockies saw it coming when they sent him to Cleveland, then talk about the Angels' off-season plans for Torii Hunter and Dan Haren.

September 26, 2012

Premium Article Pebble Hunting: A Closer Look at Relievers and Leverage

by Sam Miller

Which relievers were added to or removed from the managerial circle of trust between April and September?

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