Here's Your Playoff Coverage Omnibus

Plus visualizing hitter aggression and talking coaching age. Plus visualizing hitter aggression and talking coaching age. [View this email in your browser]( Here's Your Playoff Coverage Omnibus The wild card games are done, the ALDS is underway as of a few minutes ago, and everyone's gearing up for more. Catch up on all of FanGraphs's playoff coverage so far: - [Players To Root For In The Playoffs]( Craig Edwards gives you the roundup of the most fun, most interesting and most attention-grabbing players from every playoff team. - [Invention Shouldn't Require Necessity]( have we been seeing signs of the forward-thinking bullpen revolution so far, or simply of panic? Travis Sawchik analyzes. - [So Much For Aroldis Chapman's Weird Little Slump]( the closer's struggles from the first half seem like a distant memory at this point, with his performance in this week's wild card game proving the point. - [Zack Granite Completely Missed First B]( Jeff zooms in on one little play from the AL wild card game to suss out the bigger story there. - [Archie Bradley's Triple Was More Improbable Than You Think]( the weirdest moment of last night's NL wild card game was actually even more unusual than you might suspect. - [Jon Gray's Curveball Didn't Work]( the Rockies had several things go wrong last night, but this was certainly one of them. - [The Three Pitches That Matter For Chris Sale]( Carson Cistulli picks out the most meaningful pitches for Boston's ace and analyzes how they could come into play for the ALDS. - [Indians Go Unconventional, Again]( as Cleveland heads into Game 1, ace Corey Kluber isn't getting the ball. Trevor Bauer is. Travis Sawchik explains why. [FanGraphs produces over 400 articles each month, in addition to our ever-growing database of stats and graphs. Support our efforts today!]( Throwback Thursday: [Zach Britton Watched the Orioles Lose]( Keeping Archie Bradley in to send him to the plate in a one-run game with two men on may have seemed like a head-scratcher last night, but we're just one year removed from a wild card game in which leaving a pitcher out created a bigger mess. Jeff Sullivan covered the situation here, while Dave Cameron provided some more analysis in [The Craziest Part Of Showalter's Crazy Decision](. [Subscribe to our Podcasts!]( Catch up on past newsletters or pass along to a friend [here](. Data Visualization of the Day: [Hitter Aggression, Visualized]( Today on The Hardball Times, Ryan Pollack analyzes which hitters and most and least aggressive and figures out how that affects their performance. Excerpt from ["Players' View: Does Coaching Age Matter In Player Development?"]( by David Laurila [Zach Britton]( “I think younger coaches can be good for players. The game has evolved, and guys who aren’t far removed from playing have good knowledge of what the game is like nowadays. You might find that some of the young kids out of high school are more willing to talk to someone in that age range than somebody who is more of a father figure.”" [FORWARD]( [SUBSCRIBE]( Copyright © 2017 FanGraphs Inc, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the FanGraphs Newsletter. Our mailing address is: FanGraphs Inc 1200 N Hartford St. Apt 312Arlington, Va 22201 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](