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[BSLChrisStoner]

USA Today: MLB win totals: How we see the 2016 season unfolding
http://www.usatoday....00231e89ba3bb5#

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Sports on Earth: MLB preview: American League West

http://www.sportsone...-to-beat-correa

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Sports on Earth: MLB's 10 best lineups

http://www.sportsone...fense-mets-cubs

 

Sports on Earth: MLB's 10 best staffs
http://www.sportsone...league-baseball

[BSLChrisStoner]

Sports Illustrated: Winter Report Cards: Final grades for American League teams

 

Sports Illustrated: Winter Report Cards: Final grades for National League teams

[SportsGuy]

Any mentions of the Os are all negative:

http://espn.go.com/m...t-mlb-offseason

[BSLChrisStoner]

Sports on Earth: Power Rankings
http://www.sportsone...ing-royals-mets

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CBS Sports: MLB Power Rankings: Defending champion Royals just outside top spot
http://www.cbssports...utside-top-spot

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Sports on Earth: Spring's most important players
http://www.sportsone...portant-players

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Sports Illustrated: Spring is here! Nine key questions as camps open

http://www.si.com/ml...raining-preview

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Sports on Earth: MLB Vets with something to prove

http://www.sportsone...g-training-2016

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Sports Illustrated: The 30: Ranking every MLB team for 2016 as spring training begins
http://www.si.com/ml...-power-rankings

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FanGraphs: Grading the Offseasons for All 30 Teams

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Sports Illustrated: Spring training preview: American League East

 

Sports Illustrated: Spring training preview: National League East

[MKlein76]

MLBTradeRumors: Predicting Tommy John Surgeries
 http://www.mlbtrader...-surgeries.html

[RShack]

MLBTradeRumors: Predicting Tommy John Surgeries
 http://www.mlbtrader...-surgeries.html

 

He's throwing out P-values... that's a red flag...

 

He says he's doing it because they are "too limiting"... which is code for "I can't get results if I use them"...

 

P-values exist for a reason... a very good reason... ignoring makes it easier to get what-appear-to-be-results... it's a bogus thing to do...

 

On a more positive note, at least he's admitting it out loud... so, while I might not trust his findings, I am more inclined to trust him...

[DJ MC]

Elvis Andrus' contract is a reminder that you don't pay big for defense

[RShack]

Elvis Andrus' contract is a reminder that you don't pay big for defense

 

I wonder how much of his story is that he signed a big contract for a lot of years... makes it harder to stay hungry....

 

No stats for this kind of thing... but big money is yet another variable that might affect aging curves... on the one hand, they can afford to work at staying in shape 365... but on the other hand, any "survivor bias" is gonna be inseparable from whatever kind of "fat city" bias might come into play... because no survivor isn't downright wealthy... 

[DJ MC]

Major League Baseball announces a 30-second mound visit clock, new slide rules

 

-Managers will have 30 seconds from leaving the dugout to talk to their pitcher before the umpire must break up the meeting.

 

-There will be 20 fewer seconds between each inning in both regular and nationally-televised games (the latter gets an extra 20 seconds)

 

-The sliding rule, well, changed a bit.

[DJ MC]

https://twitter.com/...042446956077060

[BSLChrisStoner]

CBS Sports: The numbers that will tell the story of 2016: National League Central
http://www.cbssports...-league-central