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September 23, 2016

Pebble Hunting: That's The Way I Like It And I'll Never Get Bored

by Sam Miller

On being grateful for surprises.

September 22, 2016

Pebble Hunting: The Great Big 'Beat PECOTA' Wrap

by Sam Miller

The results of our preseason experiment in expectations and perception.

August 26, 2016

Pebble Hunting: A Sense Of Where You Are

by Sam Miller

A night with baseball's newest prospect.

August 11, 2016

Pebble Hunting: The Saddest Age-27 Seasons of 2016

by Sam Miller

Cutting the cord on favorite ex-prospects.

August 10, 2016

Pebble Hunting: Somebody Is About To Strike Out 25 Batters In Nine Innings

by Sam Miller

The progression of the hidden-21K-game record.

August 9, 2016

Pebble Hunting: We're Boring About Ace Relief Performances

by Sam Miller

The world stops and stares when a starter goes seven perfect innings, but largely yawns at the most dominant performances in the modern game.

August 1, 2016

Pebble Hunting: A Prayer For Daniel Hudson

by Sam Miller

Daniel Hudson was almost traded late last week. It might have rescued the pitcher from baseball's version of hell.

July 8, 2016

Pebble Hunting: Kershaw vs. Harper: The Mistakes

by Sam Miller

June in Clayton Kershaw's Zone 12 pitching.

July 6, 2016

Pebble Hunting: The Baseball In Steamy Novels

by Sam Miller

Everybody butchers baseball. How do romance novels do, you might wonder.

June 16, 2016

Pebble Hunting: Change The Minimum-Innings Threshold, Dangit

by Sam Miller

Pitcher roles change, but what we think of as (statistically) a full season hasn't. This is bad and wrong.

June 12, 2016

Pebble Hunting: The State of the Closer

by Sam Miller

Is anybody doing anything interesting, or are we all just waiting for the apocalypse?

June 7, 2016

Pebble Hunting: Clayton Kershaw's 'Mistakes', Chapter Two

by Sam Miller

Sam's continued quest to see if Kershaw is human even when the plate is centered.

May 16, 2016

Pebble Hunting: The 14 Heroes Of Sunday's Odor/Bautista Brawl

by Sam Miller

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

May 11, 2016

Pebble Hunting: The Disappearing Footnote

by Sam Miller

The ultimate unintended consequence of the ever-expanding bullpen.

May 3, 2016

Premium Article Pebble Hunting: Clayton Kershaw's 28 'Mistakes' Last Month

by Sam Miller

On the pitches the best pitcher in baseball has thrown, by one way of measuring it, the worst--and why they didn't hurt him.

April 22, 2016

Pebble Hunting: Which Bunts Are Missing?

by Sam Miller

A sketch of the missing bunts for us to put on our Missing Bunts fliers.

April 15, 2016

Pebble Hunting: So I Guess This Is Vince Velasquez Now

by Sam Miller

The best pitching performance of the season so far, as told in the best dozen or so pitches thrown.

April 12, 2016

Pebble Hunting: How You Tried To Beat PECOTA

by Sam Miller

The players we were collectively most confident about.

March 22, 2016

Pebble Hunting: Sim City 1000000

by Sam Miller

How many simulations does it take for the Rockies to win 106 games, or the Dodgers to lose 121?

March 14, 2016

Pebble Hunting: Should Have Taken Trout

by Sam Miller

Measuring the scale of a single draft pick.

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