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All Hands on Deck: Yankees Prevail in ALDS Game 3’s Battle of the Bullpens blogs.fangraphs.com/all-hands-on...

All Hands on Deck: Yankees Prevail in ALDS Game 3’s Battle of the Bullpens

After both starters were knocked out in the third inning, the Yankees’ relievers turned in 6 2/3 scoreless innings, while four straight Blue Jays relievers allowed runs.

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RotoGraphs: Mining the News (10/8/25) fantasy.fangraphs.com/mining-the-n...

Mining the News (10/8/25)

Lots of injury information.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 3h

Reviewing OOPSY’s Debut Season blogs.fangraphs.com/reviewing-oo...

Reviewing OOPSY’s Debut Season

This article reviews how the OOPSY projections performed in their debut season. Did the rookie system hold its own compared to its more established peers?

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 4h

All You Need Is Judge: Slugger Powers Yankees To Win Over Blue Jays in ALDS Game 3 blogs.fangraphs.com/all-you-need...

All You Need Is Judge: Slugger Powers Yankees To Win Over Blue Jays in ALDS Game 3

Toronto worked into the worst kind of trouble on Tuesday night. In baseball terms, that means anything involving the two-time MVP.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 4h

Brad Keller and Drew Pomeranz Are Rejuvenated Relievers in Chicago blogs.fangraphs.com/brad-keller-...

Brad Keller and Drew Pomeranz Are Rejuvenated Relievers in Chicago

Question marks coming into the season, both pitchers have made meaningful contributions out of the Cubs bullpen.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 13h

With Three Homers and a Late Rally Survived, the Mariners Best the Tigers in ALDS Game 3 blogs.fangraphs.com/with-three-h...

With Three Homers and a Late Rally Survived, the Mariners Best the Tigers in ALDS Game 3

Seattle is one win away from advancing to the ALCS for the first time since 2001.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 19h

Welcome to the 2025 Arizona Fall League blogs.fangraphs.com/welcome-to-t...

Welcome to the 2025 Arizona Fall League

With the Arizona Fall League underway, a deep dive on the prospects to watch from each team.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 1d

The Hard-Luck Losing Pitchers of 2025 blogs.fangraphs.com/the-hard-luc...

The Hard-Luck Losing Pitchers of 2025

Pitching well doesn’t mean you’ll end up with a win. Just ask Cy Young.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 1d

RotoGraphs: Mining the News (10/7/25) fantasy.fangraphs.com/mining-the-n...

Mining the News (10/7/25)

Now all the injury news comes out.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 1d

Yankees Pin Hopes for Extending Their Season on Carlos Rodón, Again blogs.fangraphs.com/yankees-pin-...

Yankees Pin Hopes for Extending Their Season on Carlos Rodón, Again

For the second time inside of a week, the 32-year-old lefty takes the ball with New York facing elimination.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 1d

RotoGraphs: Mike Podhorzer’s 2025 Bold Predictions — A Review fantasy.fangraphs.com/mike-podhorz...

Mike Podhorzer’s 2025 Bold Predictions — A Review

The results!

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 1d

Brewers Crush Cubs, Near Sweep blogs.fangraphs.com/brewers-crus...

Brewers Crush Cubs, Near Sweep

Some games flow like beautiful novels. This was not one of those. Milwaukee’s win over Chicago was disjointed, and can best be captured by a disjointed recap.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 1d

Effectively Wild Episode 2384: The Postseason is Cruel (But it Beats the Alternative) blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-...

Effectively Wild Episode 2384: The Postseason is Cruel (But it Beats the Alternative)

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s recovery from illness and her ongoing emotional distress as a postseason spectator, then share their takeaways from the first two games of each ALDS and...

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 1d

Six Innings of Zeroes, Followed by Seven At-Bats of Mayhem: Dodgers on Verge of Sweep blogs.fangraphs.com/six-innings-...

Six Innings of Zeroes, Followed by Seven At-Bats of Mayhem: Dodgers on Verge of Sweep

The two clubs followed a pair of near-perfect pitching performances with a manifestly imperfect bottom of the ninth.

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 4d

I told my wife what happened during my Effectively Wild guest appearance and she said: "Why do you keep tormenting that man?"

FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 4d

Effectively Wild Episode 2383: How to Call a Collapse blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-...

Effectively Wild Episode 2383: How to Call a Collapse

Ben Lindbergh brings on Michael Baumann, who immediately makes Ben regret it by subjecting him to a lyrical ode to Effectively Wild inspired by the Taylor Swift song “Wood.” Then they play “College...

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 3d

My recap from Citizens Bank Park. Game 1 of the NLDS did nothing to disabuse me of the notion that this is a heavyweight rock fight

FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 3d

One Ohtani, Two Hernándezes Lead Dodgers to Game 1 Win blogs.fangraphs.com/one-ohtani-t...

One Ohtani, Two Hernándezes Lead Dodgers to Game 1 Win

Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player on the planet, maybe the best who ever lived. Cristopher Sánchez tied him in knots. It didn’t matter.

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 1d

Blake Snell vs. Jesús Luzardo is a highly specific test of how much you can trust FIP

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 2d

RotoGraphs: Poll 2025: Which Group of Hitters Performs Better? A Review fantasy.fangraphs.com/poll-2025-wh...

Poll 2025: Which Group of Hitters Performs Better? A Review

How’d they do in the 2nd half?

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 2d

Mariners Survive Skubal, Outlast Tigers to Level Series blogs.fangraphs.com/mariners-sur...

Mariners Survive Skubal, Outlast Tigers to Level Series

A fifth-inning decision may have been the difference in Seattle’s white-knuckle win.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 2d

Blue Jays Batter the Bombers in Game 2, but Trey Yesavage Is the Bigger Story blogs.fangraphs.com/blue-jays-ba...

Blue Jays Batter the Bombers in Game 2, but Trey Yesavage Is the Bigger Story

The rookie right-hander who began the year in Low-A was historically dominant against the best offense in baseball to lead Toronto to a 13-7 win.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 3d

Tigers Claw Out Nail-Biting Win Over Mariners in ALDS Game 1 blogs.fangraphs.com/tigers-claw-...

Tigers Claw Out Nail-Biting Win Over Mariners in ALDS Game 1

The Tigers want to prove their second-half woes are behind them, but they still have some work to do.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 3d

Sunday Notes: Detroit’s Will Vest Developed Into a Quality Closer blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes...

Sunday Notes: Detroit’s Will Vest Developed Into a Quality Closer

Plus Ceddanne Rafaela on his season, Dillon Dingler on nerves, Alex Cora on the Astros, Dusty Baker hung out with hippies, facts and stats galore, and more.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 3d

One Ohtani, Two Hernándezes Lead Dodgers to Game 1 Win blogs.fangraphs.com/one-ohtani-t...

One Ohtani, Two Hernándezes Lead Dodgers to Game 1 Win

Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player on the planet, maybe the best who ever lived. Cristopher Sánchez tied him in knots. It didn’t matter.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 3d

The Blue Jays Pummel the Yankees To Take ALDS Game 1 blogs.fangraphs.com/the-blue-jay...

The Blue Jays Pummel the Yankees To Take ALDS Game 1

Toronto got on the board quickly, and then blew it open against the New York bullpen.

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 3d

Brewers Blow Out Cubs With First Inning Explosion in NLDS Game 1 blogs.fangraphs.com/brewers-blow...

Brewers Blow Out Cubs With First Inning Explosion in NLDS Game 1

Milwaukee certainly didn’t look rusty, but after Jackson Chourio’s hamstring injury flared back up, the win could prove costly.

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