Jay Jaffe
Senior writer at @FanGraphs.com, formerly SI.com and Baseball Prospectus, creator of JAWS, author of The Cooperstown Casebook (2017). Not sticking to sports or paying $8.
- well, that certainly shakes up the roundup of remaining free agent starters that I was going to file to @fangraphs.com tonight...
- “Wait, you’re not the elevator repair guy?” is a question I was just asked in earnest. Probably for the best that I didn’t try to bluff my way through that one.
- This fucking sucks. Fuck Jeff Bezos, put him on a rocket into the fucking sun.
- Wait, we can send DMs here too?
- Transcript available for those of you who dig that sorta thing
- new @fangraphs.com: with the calendar flipping to February and pitchers and catchers reporting next week (!) here's the first of a two-part look at the top remaining free agents. The position player version is light on full-time candidates, but platoon options and Plan B's abound.
- as I have maintained for over 8 years (I checked), he's a Talking Ass Crack.
- To be fair, yes, Beltran did have ~3 1/2 of his seven-best seasons by WAR (his peak, for JAWS purposes) as a Royal
- they're exactly the ones you'd expect: Giants (Kent), Braves (Jones) and Mets (Beltrán)
- I know, you're shocked Andruw Jones won't be wearing a Dodgers cap, Kent a Blue Jays one, or Beltrán a Rangers one
- I'll be chatting at 12 pm ET
