FVR Report No. 033 · 2026-10-09
The Drift
Jonny DeLuca moved four spots on the fade board this window — his results ran further ahead of a bat that's good but not this good.
Fever Reports
Long-form deep dives — the story behind the signal, written for people who love this game. Numbered, dated, and permanent.
FVR Report No. 032 · 2026-10-07
The First Name on the Board
He's first on our breakout board, hitting .141, and we've missed twice — the widest gap in baseball still hasn't closed.
FVR Report No. 031 · 2026-10-05
Wrong Direction
Héctor Rodríguez fell four spots on the fade board. The crowd read it as a demotion. The engine read it as agreement.
FVR Report No. 030 · 2026-10-02
Two Hits and a Bat
Freddie Freeman is two hits from 2,600 — and the crowd watches the celebration while the engine watches the contact.
FVR Report No. 029 · 2026-09-28
The Crowd Says Done
Aaron Judge at 34 — injured, .241, and the crowd has made up its mind. The engine says the bat hasn't heard the news.
FVR Report No. 028 · 2026-09-25
The Clock on Will Smith
Two calls on the same catcher. One miss already on the ledger. Thirty-four days on the official window, two on the real one — and the gap is closing.
FVR Report No. 027 · 2026-09-21
The Drift
The engine moved Piñango up four spots this window. The card market shrugged. One of them is wrong.
FVR Report No. 026 · 2026-09-18
The Clock and the Crowd
Nine days left on call C0002, the AAA box score says hot streak, and the engine says the bat hasn't caught up — Edouard Julien, No. 2 on the breakout board, with the window closing.
FVR Report No. 025 · 2026-09-14
The Pest and the Drift
The crowd wants Alex Call gone. The engine just eased off him. Here's what the math is actually doing.
FVR Report No. 024 · 2026-09-11
The Clock and the Crowd
Carlos Narváez is hitting .109 in Baltimore and the fans want him gone. The engine says the bat is owed. Call C0016 has 34 days to settle it.
FVR Report No. 023 · 2026-09-07
No. 1 and Hitting .153
Ke'Bryan Hayes sits first on our breakout board. We already missed on him once. Here's why he's still there.
FVR Report No. 022 · 2026-09-04
The Countdown and the Comeback
Two saves from 400, the crowd sees a victory lap. The numbers see a pitcher who never left.
FVR Report No. 021 · 2026-08-31
Three Spots Down
The engine just eased off Chandler Simpson. The card market heard the opposite.
FVR Report No. 020 · 2026-08-28
Two Short of a Thousand
Xander Bogaerts is 998 runs into a career the crowd has stopped reading — the engine says the bat hasn't left yet.
FVR Report No. 019 · 2026-08-26
Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine
Merrill Kelly is one strikeout from 1,000. The crowd sees a milestone. The season says something harder.
FVR Report No. 018 · 2026-08-21
The Crowd and the Clock
Call C0014 has 37 days left, and the crowd is reading MVP while the engine reads owed.
FVR Report No. 017 · 2026-08-19
Thirty-Nine Days
Call C0001 has 39 days left on the clock and James Wood is on the injured list — the crowd reads it the other way.
FVR Report No. 016 · 2026-08-17
Falling the Right Way
Wade Meckler dropped four spots on our fade board, and the crowd read it backward — on this board, falling means the engine is easing off, not piling on.
FVR Report No. 015 · 2026-08-14
The Clock and the Crowd
Call C0002 says the luck turns for Edouard Julien; the crowd says he's done — and the clock has 44 days left.
FVR Report No. 014 · 2026-08-10
Five Spots North
Carlos Narváez moved up five spots on the breakout board while going hitless for two weeks. The engine sees a bat the box score hasn't paid for yet.
FVR Report No. 013 · 2026-08-07
The Clock and the Quiet Catcher
Call C0009 says Will Smith's luck turns by September 3. The crowd says he's hurt and won't be back in time. Twenty-seven days to find out who's right.
FVR Report No. 012 · 2026-08-05
The Clock and the Crowd
Twenty-one days left on C0015. The crowd has given up on Ke'Bryan Hayes. The engine ranks him No. 1.
FVR Report No. 011 · 2026-07-24
The Hardest Bat in the World Is in Triple-A
Spencer Jones hits the ball harder than anyone our engine tracks. The Yankees sent him down. The swing-and-miss is real. So is the contact.
FVR Report No. 010 · 2026-07-22
Last Seat in the Barn
The engine cooled on Brandon Nimmo — his results are catching up to his bat — but the crowd just discovered the hot streak.
FVR Report No. 009 · 2026-07-21
The Engine Doesn't Know Who Mike Trout Is
A machine that can't read plaques put a 34-year-old on a breakout board — and our numbers say he got a step back nobody noticed.
FVR Report No. 008 · 2026-07-17
Selling the All-Star
We are fading Tristan Peters a week after the cycle and the All-Star nod — and we will say so to his face while the wire is still hot.
FVR Report No. 007 · 2026-07-15
The First Arm
An engine cold to comebacks files a fade on Eduardo Rodriguez — the Venezuelan lefty who lost a full season to myocarditis, reinvented himself, and just made his first All-Star team.
FVR Report No. 006 · 2026-07-15
The Board Audits Itself
Our Fade board caught Chandler Simpson on soft contact and elite wheels. We tested whether speed was the bug. The fix was worse. The receipts are public.
FVR Report No. 005 · 2026-07-14
The Punchline at No. 1
The widest gap in baseball between hard contact and results belongs to a 30-year-old utility man the crowd uses to measure other failures. We filed on him first.
FVR Report No. 004 · 2026-07-13
The Drift on Wyatt Langford
He fell three spots on the fade board while walk-off chatter ran the other way, but the contact gap underneath has not moved.
FVR Report No. 003 · 2026-07-12
The Ohtani Question
Why isn't the most famous player alive on our boards? The answer is the whole methodology in one lesson — plus the new wing we built for players like him.
FVR Report No. 002 · 2026-07-12
The Kid They Traded Home
A deep dive on James Wood — the Soto trade's quietest return, the loudest contact on our board, and why call C0001 was the easiest hard call we'll ever file.
FVR Report No. 001 · 2026-07-11
The Second-Half Board
It's the All-Star break. Here are five calls we just put on the record — who's about to get better, who's about to give it back, and one name nobody is talking about yet.