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The 411 on Me and Ties

Jay Jaffe — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:00:32 +0000

The good folks at MLB keep calling my number, and I keep calling up Tie-a-Tie to pull together a competent Half-Windsor knot. Last Tuesday, Clubhouse Confidential invited me back for not one but two segments. The first one marked uncharted territory for me, participating in their “Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside” segment, in which a member of ...

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Mauer Power on the Road to Cooperstown

Jay Jaffe — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:26:00 +0000

In the wake of Joe Mauer agreeing to an eight-year, $184-million contract extension with the Twins, I wrote a piece on Mauer’s Hall of Fame chances vis-à-vis JAWS, using his PECOTA projections to fill in the blanks because his major league career consists of five seasons and change. Amazingly, he’s already 31st in all-time WARP ...

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Mr. Fantasy Pants

Jay Jaffe — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:27:00 +0000

For the third year in a row, I spent countless hours in November and December writing player capsules for Fantasy Baseball Index 2008, a magazine-style fantasy guide that should be making its way to newsstands and Amazon right about now (unexpected perk: my first author credit on Amazon, along with a brief bio). As with ...

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