Hello, everyone Fangraphs readers! Are you a member of Fangraphs? Are you looking for something to read on Saturday morning? You have any burning baseball questions about us but don’t know where to ask them? OK, then we have good news for you.
Fangraphs is releasing a weekly mailbag curated by me that will run on the website every Saturday morning. Anyone can submit questions, but the articles that answer them can only be used by Fangraphs members.
So how will this work? Email all your questions – about baseball, baseball writing or anything else you might be interested in getting us to answer – email me at mailbag@fangraphs.com, and every week, I will choose something we answered in Saturday’s mailbag. That’s right, I said usbecause my Fangraphs colleagues will help me. If you have a Hall of Fame issue, I might pass it on to Jay Jaffe. We have Eric Longenhagen for potential consultations, if you need to consult Ol’Zips Machine, Dan Szymborski – the listing continues! We will try our best to answer as many questions as we can each week, but we will not be able to concentrate. The ideal Mailbag problem is that what we can solve in various chats needs to be studied in depth, but not so extensive that it guarantees the entire article.
These mailbags will be informative, but they are also fun ways to start the weekend. We will keep the light and conversation going. Mail bags won’t be as loose as AMA, but almost any topic is fair game (within reason, of course). If you’ve been wanting to ask Michael Baumann about submarines or how he makes headlines, now is your chance! Most importantly, we want our mailbags to be a way to connect with members and talk about baseball.
If you don’t have a membership yet and want to join the conversation, you can sign up for a membership here. Of course, there are many other reasons to become a Fangraphs member. In addition to supporting our website and staff, members also offer ad-free browsing, one-click data export, and unlimited Fangraphs and Rotographs articles. It also enables us to bring you greater website customization; indeed, customization has become a key principle for membership. We don’t want to force you to watch baseball or Van Graff the way we do. We want to let you choose what you want to see and how you want to see it, from flipping your site to dark or classic mode, to removing photos from your homepage, to setting up your own player page dashboard and customizing reports and rankings. Our members also have access to steamship platoons, context neutral and percentile predictions, as well as historical steamer, zipper and ATC predictions. Oh, and fangraphs for a walk! Here is a personalized comment on your use of the website, a website that all cool baseball people talked about online in December. Do you really want to miss it? Now, we are adding a weekly mailbag column to all the other great membership features we offer.
Our goal is to do the first mailbag run on Saturday, June 7, so it’s time to start sending your questions. Again, the email is bag@fangraphs.com. Let’s have fun!
