Rob Arthur (131 entries)

At Least All These Tommy John Surgeries Aren’t Rotator Cuff Surgeries
Three Trends To Watch In Baseball This Year
Spring Training Matters
The Rays’ Radical Reliever Experiment
The Scouts And Stats Agree: Kris Bryant Is Going To Be Dope
Yadier Molina Forgot How To Frame A Pitch
Is Baseball Moving Beyond Old Guys In The Dugout?
Chase Utley Is The Unluckiest Man In Baseball
A Baseball’s Exit Velocity Is Five Parts Hitter, One Part Pitcher
The Astros Are Making A Historic Turnaround
Are Six-Man Rotations Ever Worth It?
Big Papi Needs More Time To Think
We’re Seeing More Strikeouts, But It Takes Many More Pitches To Get Them
Baseball’s Kids Are All Right
Buster Posey’s Pitch Framing Makes Him A Potential MVP
Is 2015 The Year Baseball’s Projections Failed?
MLB’s Best Free Agent Doesn’t Play Baseball
The Happiest And Saddest Fans In Baseball
The Happiest And Saddest Fans In Baseball
Everyone’s Just Guessing About Matt Harvey’s Innings Limit
Everyone’s Just Guessing About Matt Harvey’s Innings Limit
Jake Arrieta Is Not Your Normal Ace
Stats Can’t Tell Us Whether Mike Trout Or Josh Donaldson Should Be MVP
Yogi Berra Was One Of A Kind
Yogi Berra Was One Of A Kind
Who’s To Blame For The Nationals’ Implosion?
The Blue Jays Are The Best — And There’s An 80 Percent Chance They Won’t Win
The Blue Jays Are The Best — And There’s An 80 Percent Chance They Won’t Win
The Wild-Card Winner Is The Team To Beat In The NL
The Wild-Card Winner Is The Team To Beat In The NL
Playoff Umps Are Screwing Up A Tenth Of Balls And Strikes
Playoff Umps Are Screwing Up A Tenth Of Balls And Strikes
Where This Year’s Playoff Aces Rank In Franchise History
The Cubs Can’t Take The Heat
The Cubs Can’t Take The Heat
A Run Like Daniel Murphy’s Should Happen Once Every Two Years
A Run Like Daniel Murphy’s Should Happen Once Every Two Years
Game 1 Of The World Series Was 14 Innings Of Weird
Game 1 Of The World Series Was 14 Innings Of Weird
Terry Collins And Ned Yost Both Took Their Starters Out Too Late In Game 3
Terry Collins And Ned Yost Both Took Their Starters Out Too Late In Game 3
The Best Royals Team Ever Played Best When It Mattered Most
The Best Royals Team Ever Played Best When It Mattered Most
The Offer That MLB Players Always Refuse, Even When They Shouldn’t
How To Predict Bad Cops In Chicago
Bored With ‘Balance’ In Baseball? 2016 Could Be Your Year
We Now Have Algorithms To Predict Police Misconduct
How Baseball’s New Data Is Changing Sabermetrics
A Baseball Mystery: The Home Run Is Back, And No One Knows Why
Older Hitters Are Declining, But It’s Not Because They Can’t Stand The Heat
Gun Violence Spiked — And Arrests Declined — In Chicago Right After The Laquan McDonald Video Release
The New Science Of Hitting
Statheads Are The Best Free Agent Bargains In Baseball
It’s Hard To Tell How Good NFL Teams Are At The Draft
The Cubs’ Start Is Even More Dominant Than It Seems
Tommy John Surgeries Are Down, And Nobody Quite Knows Why
A Definitive Guide To Baseball’s Pizza Discounts
Don’t Leave, Big Papi
Who’s Hitting The Ball Harder This Year, And Who’s Just Getting Lucky?
This Year’s Cubs Might Be Better Than The Incredible ’27 Yankees
The Pitchers With The Best New Stuff This Season
The Cubs’ Pitchers Are Making Their Own Luck
Yes, The Infield Shift Works. Probably.
Would Baseball’s All-Time All-Star Team Go 162-0?
Are Juiced Balls The New Steroids?
MLB Games Are Slow Again, And It’s Helping Older Hitters
Why Bryce Harper Has Gone From Great To Good
Steroids Probably Aren’t Causing Baseball’s Power Surge
MLB’s Hit-Tracking Tool Misses A Lot Of Hits
The Texas Rangers Are Making (Unsustainable) History In One-Run Games
Baseball Managers Are Getting Smarter About Handling Their Bullpens
The Seattle Mariners Can’t Catch A Postseason Break
Baseball’s Savviest (And Crappiest!) Bullpen Managers
Baseball Was Way Easier To Predict In 2016 — Except For Fly Balls
Major League Baseball Is About To Get Random
Rangers And Jays Battle To The Postseason’s Most Exciting Game — So Far
Home Runs Are Taking Over The Playoffs
In Baseball, October Is Reliever Season
Even The Data Thinks The Cubs May Have Been Cursed
Baseball’s Biggest Games Are Taking Forever
An Inconsistent Strike Zone Hurt Both Teams in Game 3
The Cubs Have A Smaller Chance Of Winning Than Trump Does
Chicago Police Are Shooting Fewer People Since An Officer Killed Laquan McDonald
The Cubs And Indians Are Fighting Short Rest In Game 7
Cubs Fans Finally Exit Purgatory After One Of Baseball’s Greatest Games
Demographics, Not Hacking, Explain The Election Results
Barry Bonds And Roger Clemens Are Benefiting From Public Hall Of Fame Ballots
Sabermetrics Helped Put Tim Raines In The Hall Of Fame
Chicago’s Murder Rate Is Rising, But It Isn’t Unprecedented
Will Trump Reverse Obama’s Push For Greater Police Oversight?
Is The Home Run Back? Will The Shift Ever Die? And 8 More Burning Baseball Questions
TrumpBeat: The Art Of The Less-Ambitious Deal
Mike Trout Is Outrageously Consistent At Being Outrageously Great
Do MLB Teams Undervalue Defense — Or Just Value It Differently?
Baseball’s New Pitch-Tracking System Is Just A Bit Outside
Bryce Harper Is Hitting Like An MVP Again
The Mets Aren’t Even Best At Getting Injured
The Fly Ball Revolution Is Hurting As Many Batters As It’s Helped
Latinos In Three Cities Are Reporting Fewer Crimes Since Trump Took Office
Pitchers Are Slowing Down To Speed Up
After Years Of Tanking, The Astros Are Now The Best In Baseball
Ryan Howard’s Career Is Dead. The Shift Killed It.
It Looks Like The Baseball Is Behind MLB’s Power Surge
Baseball’s Mediocre Teams Are Disappearing
Tim Tebow Is Failing Up
In MLB’s New Home Run Era, It’s The Baseballs That Are Juicing
The Cubs Have One Of The Worst Championship Hangovers Ever
The AL Is Still Beating The NL — But Maybe Not For Long
Pitchers Are (Slowly) Adapting To The Home Run Spike
Trades Aren’t Just For The Deadline Anymore
Baseball’s Richest Just Got Much Richer
Medicine Is Getting More Precise … For White People
Baseball’s ‘Hot Hand’ Is Real
Buster Posey Has Quietly Become A Lock For Cooperstown
How The Dodgers Are Using Baseball’s New DL Rules To Get An Edge
Justin Verlander Needs The Astros As Much As They Need Him
MLB’s Prospects Are Showing Up Ready To Mash
Pitchers Have Been Avoiding Giancarlo Stanton (It Just Hasn’t Worked)
Will Miami’s Skyscrapers Withstand Irma?
Mike Trout Doesn’t Need A Full Season To Put Up MVP Numbers
Baseballs Are More Consistently Juiced Than Ever
Madison Bumgarner Rode A Hot Streak To Greatness, And We Know Who Could Be Next
The 2017 Cubs Never Clicked
Clayton Kershaw’s Otherworldly Game One
Joe Girardi Was A Good Manager. In 2017, That’s Not Enough.
David Roberts’s Overworked Bullpen Is A Bad Omen For The Dodgers
This Astros-Dodgers World Series Is Already One Of The Best Ever
The World Series Baseballs Sure Seem Juiced. But Are They?
No Matter How You Measure Them, Mass Shooting Deaths Are Up
Yu Darvish Makes The Cubs A Top-Tier Team Again
We X-Rayed Some MLB Baseballs. Here’s What We Found.