Use Our Playoff Odds Pages Like a Pro

The FanGraphs Newsletter, March 8, 2024 [READ IN BROWSER]( March 8, 2024 Over the next month, we at FanGraphs will be highlighting a number of site features and showing you how we use them. The goal is to make your visit to the website more enjoyable, and to help you get the most out of the features we’ve added over the years. Today, we're going to walk through the various ways we deploy projections to make predictions about the future. Let’s explore our [projected standings]( and [playoff odds]( pages. Let’s start with the nerve center of our predictions, the page that shows everything that feeds into our [much-discussed]( playoff odds: the Projected Standings. You can find them using the navigation bar at the top of the site: [Learn More]( [Red Sox Hope Brayan Bello Deal Is the Start of Something Bigger]( The 24-year-old righty has signed the second-largest extension ever for a pre-arbitration pitcher. | by Jay Jaffe [Revisiting Willy Adames' Quest for Big Bucks]( Shortstops at this level get paid. Did a down year jeopardize Adames' millions, or was it just bad luck? | by Michael Baumann [Player's View: Consuming Baseball, Then and Now]( Ten players compare how they followed baseball when they were fans versus how they follow it now as professionals. | by David Laurila [Examining the Pitchers Who Are Throwing Harder This Spring]( About a dozen pitchers have gained at least one mph of fastball velocity since the end of last season. Will this extra juice make much of a difference? | by Chris Gilligan [How Long Can the Remaining Free Agents Wait Before Things Get Weird?]( How common is it for a top free agent pitcher to be unsigned in March? And is it common enough that we can draw conclusions from that precedent? | by Michael Baumann 🎧 [Effectively Wild Episode 2134: Season Preview Series: Orioles and Giants]( [DOWNLOAD THE FANGRAPHS APP]( [FanGraphs & Effectively Wild Merch Is Now Available at BreakingT!]( [ORDER HERE]( [Did the Pitch Clock Cause Pitcher Injuries?]( by Derek Rhoads and Rob Mains, Baseball Prospectus ($) [Inside Chris Sale's third act: From considering walking away to becoming an MLB superteam's missing piece]( by Jeff Passan, ESPN [Prominent MLB team physician sounds alarm on pitching injuries]( by Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris, The Athletic ($) [Spring Breakout rosters are set: Here's your full guide]( by Ben Weinrib and Kenny Van Doren, MLB [@fangraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [RSS]( [FORWARD]( [SUBSCRIBE]( Copyright © 2024 FanGraphs Inc, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the FanGraphs Newsletter. Our mailing address is: FanGraphs Inc 3017 N Underwood StArlington, VA 22213 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](