FANALYTICS: Mayberry 4.0 and Portfolio3

An unabridged version of this article appears in the 2015 Baseball Forecaster.

There was a time when 30/100/.300 meant something. Those were the benchmarks for stardom; a point of reference around which we could evaluate performance. Thirty home runs, 100 RBIs and a .300 batting average. When PEDs were peaking 15 years ago, at least two dozen players were reaching those numbers every year.

And now? Last year, the only players to accomplish 30/100/.300 were José Abreu and Victor Martínez.

There was also a time when a sub-2.00 ERA was virtually unachievable. Thirty-one pitchers (min. 30 IP) accomplished that feat in 2014.

A strikeout-to-walk ratio of 2.0 used to be the LIMA Plan's delimiter of success. Today, pitchers with that ratio...

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