WAF 51: Meaningful Week One Takeaways
Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) discuss the first week of action and take a look at meaningful stats in small samples to give insight on early-season moves.
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Metrics that matter early in the season (8:00)
Plate discipline and Steven Kwan's historic start (11:45)
Seiya Suzuki's plate discipline is legit (20:40)
Ian Happ's hot start (23:25)
Go grab Connor Joe (26:04)
Giancarlo Stanton is reaching more (31:00)
Concerned about Bobby Dalbec (34:08)
Jorge Soler struggling to make contact in Miami (37:22)
Not concerned about Jo Adell...yet (39:45)
Max Exit velocity standouts (43:15)
Keep an eye on Nate Lowe and Santiago Espinal (47:50)
Fastball velocity gainers (49:45)
Tylor Megill's impressive two starts (51:20)
Logan Gilbert's velo bump (52:30)
Velocity decliners and concern about Bieber and Urias (53:15)
Pitch mix changers and interest in Kyle Wright (1:02:30)
Justin Steele as a potential streamer (1:04:25)
Is a Merrill Kelly breakout incoming? (1:06:00)
Corbin Martin's increased slider usage (1:09:00)
Bailey Ober threw more siders, too (1:10:25)
Shane McClanahan looks great (1:12:40)
Closer speculation (1:13:32)
Max Freeze Small Sample Size Stabilization
Mike Podhorzer Velocity Gainers Article
JonPGH SubStack
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