Author: Zane Moran

Colorado enters the weekend series in New York in second place in the NL West. At 17-15, they have slightly overachieved according to BP’s expected win % (.490), but after leaving most of their 2017 Wild Card team intact for this season, they are clearly talented. The one place they did add over the winter […]

The Mets and Braves enter May about where they where before their April series in Atlanta. The Braves have inched just a half game closer and are now 1.5 games back. The NL East has somewhat surprisingly been one of the most competitive divisions, and if the first month of the season was any indication, […]

The Padres come into their weekend series with the Mets sitting at the bottom of the NL West. They are pretty obviously still in the depths of a complete rebuild, regardless of how many dollars they give to Eric Hosmer, but there is some hope on the horizon. Their minor league system is teeming with […]

The Cardinals and Mets enter the mid-week series atop their respective divisions. The Cardinals come in especially hot, sweeping the Reds over the weekend and having won eight of their last 10. They have allowed the third least runs in the National League, and their pitchers feature prominently in the following stats preview. To lead […]

Atlanta enters the weekend series tied for second place in the NL East and three games back of New York. The Braves are tied with the Diamondbacks for first in the NL in run differential at +27, suggesting that their strong early play may not just be a flash in the pan. (The Mets’ run […]

The Mets enter their series against division leading fourth place Washington having won nine of their last ten games. The Nationals are two games under .500 despite benefiting from strong early performances from some inexperienced players. Because not much has changed since the last Nationals stats preview, this version focuses on three of those young […]

The Brewers’ -15 run differential suggests a struggling club, but they head into New York over .500 thanks to some key early performances. The team has faced injuries to a few important members of the team, including star closer Corey Knebel, but other players have stepped up to help fill those voids. Some of those […]

The woes of the Marlins have possibly already hit rock bottom with their 20-1 drumming by the Phillies on Saturday. Nevertheless, they are a roster full of promise for the future and leftovers from the last semi-competitive team. While that means many of their once statistically interesting players are now roaming the outfields of franchises […]

What follows is the second installment of our stats preview series, this time featuring the Washington Nationals. The Nats are coming off back-to-back losses to the Braves, the latter of which came with Max Scherzer on the mound. Thankfully the Mets will avoid facing him, but the starting pitching will still be something to watch […]

It seems ironically appropriate that the season’s first stats preview would be on the team whose new manager is being blasted by fans and the media for his overreliance on statistics. No matter how far the Philadelphia fans’ overreactions to Gabe Kapler’s managerial growing pains go, though, the Phillies are still what we thought they […]