David Laurila
Columnist at FanGraphs
Baseball Writer, FanGraphs Q&A and Sunday Notes guy, Everton FC, Red Wings, Packers, Upper Peninsula native.
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2 days ago |
blogs.fangraphs.com | David Laurila
Max Scherzer has had a Hall of Fame-quality career. Now with the Toronto Blue Jays, the 40-year-old right-hander has accumulated 73.0 WAR to go with 216 wins and a 133 ERA+ across his 18 big league seasons. Moreover, his 3,408 strikeouts rank 11th all time, and his résumé also includes three Cy Young Awards, eight All-Star selections, and a pair of World Series rings.
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4 days ago |
blogs.fangraphs.com | David Laurila
Penn Murfee was mentioned in the interview with Trent Blank that ran here at FanGraphs on Friday. Discussing pitch profiles, Seattle’s director of pitching strategy recalled the erstwhile Mariners reliever being “a guy who had cut-ride” on his four-seam fastball. Murfee is now with the White Sox, and Chicago’s South Side club is in Boston for a weekend series, so I took the opportunity to get his own perspective on the offering.
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6 days ago |
blogs.fangraphs.com | David Laurila
Trent Blank plays an integral role in one of baseball’s top pitching organizations. Now in his sixth season on the major league coaching staff, Blank is the director of pitching strategy for the Seattle Mariners. He’s well-suited for the job. The 35-year-old former minor league hurler holds an MS in Kinesiology and Exercise from Dallas Baptist University, and he previously worked at TMI Sports Medicine as a baseball performance specialist.
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1 week ago |
blogs.fangraphs.com | David Laurila
Randal Grichuk was ranked seventh when our 2015 St. Louis Cardinals Top Prospects list was published in March of that year. Acquired by the NL Central club in trade 16 months earlier, the then-22-year-old outfielder had been drafted 24th overall by the Los Angeles Angels out of a Rosenberg, Texas high school in 2009. The selection is a well-known part of his story. Grichuk was the first of back-to-back Angels’ picks that summer, the second being Mike Trout. Grichuk has gone on to have a good career.
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1 week ago |
blogs.fangraphs.com | David Laurila
Erick Fedde returned stateside in 2024 and had a career-best major league season. One year after going 20-6 with a 2.00 ERA for the KBO’s NC Dinos, the 32-year-old right-hander logged a 3.30 ERA and a 3.86 FIP over 31 starts between the Chicago White Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals. His previous big league campaigns had been relatively rocky. From 2017-2022, Fedde fashioned a 5.41 ERA and a 5.17 FIP with the Washington Nationals.
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Saw Harvard’s Callan Fang today. The draft-eligible right-hander was impressive. Good mix of pitches and a decent heater. https://t.co/w8SdPohFbN
RT @fangraphs: Matthew Boyd Addresses His 2015 FanGraphs Scouting Report https://t.co/80qGLQ5oEN
The director of a new baseball documentary was quoted as saying that it's a game "where you can be the best in the world at it and still fail 7 of 10 times." Proof that you can direct a baseball documentary without really understanding baseball.
