skyking162

I’m extremely proud to announce that I’m officially a professional baseball writer. (Notice I didn’t say expert baseball writer.)

David Appelman of FanGraphs fame asked me a couple weeks ago to write regularly for his website. I quickly agreed and we’ve finally worked out the details. If you’re not familiar with FanGraphs, it’s an amazing site that provides a bunch of features not found together anywhere else. For example…

• Traditional player stats, plus a bunch of less common batted ball stats, like line drive percentage, homeruns per flyball, and infield hit percentage. Check out Ben Broussard’s stats page.
• Graphs of 10 key stats, presented both as season totals, and 10-game rolling averages from within each season. You can also view the graphs by lefty/right or home/road splits, like Ben Broussard’s isolated power.
• The ability to compare up to three players on the same graph for any of the graph-able stats. You could, for example, compare the OBPs of Ben Broussard, Mark Teixeira, and Travis Hafner over the years. Check out that second graph, where the players’ seasons are lined up according to age.
• Win Probability Added, including TangoTiger’s Leverage Index. That’s right, every game’s Win Probability is graphed, including box scores and individual players’ WPA and LI. On the team page, season stats are compiled. League leaders are coming soon.
• And now, brilliantly written articles by moi. Speed Plots contain quick thoughts about a number of different players, while Daily Graphings (like the first one about my main Man Crush) go more in depth about one player. I may also try my hand at a game of the day column, using WPA.

I’ll still be writing pretty much the same amount at my own blog, since what I’ll be writing for FanGraphs is very player-specific, unlike most of what I’ve been writing about here. So it’s great news for all of you, my loyal fans — you get to read my writing in two locations. Lucky you.

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