What follows is a whimsical post that considers a fun, but ultimately inconsequential, metric: Dingers per WAR. As one might quickly surmise, Dingers per WAR (or DPW from here) simply represents the number of...
Anyone who pays more than passing attention to baseball knows that pitcher injuries are a serious problem. As pitchers have thrown harder in recent years, arm injuries in turn have risen. It should go...
As Spring Training wraps up yet again, it’s worth pausing briefly to consider one key aspect of MLB’s preseason. Of course, Spring Training is about a lot of things. It is about new beginnings...
The Rangers have had a relatively busy offseason, once again reshuffling their roster in an attempt to jumpstart a disappointing lineup and provide requisite depth across an otherwise thin pitching staff. But have those...
This post briefly covers 0-2 pitches in 2025. To start, let’s all just acknowledge that hitting with an 0-2 count has to be pretty miserable; pitchers have no great incentive to offer anything particularly...
Pitcher health and load management have become more important than ever in recent years as the incidence of arm injuries has risen. The reasons for that spike in injuries are complex and probably due...
While the 2025 regular season is not yet complete, the Texas Rangers were just yesterday eliminated from the postseason hunt. Given that fact, in tandem with my fandom of the Rangers, this post will...
A couple of the interesting terms in baseball’s lexicon are “front door” and “back door” pitches. Front door pitches start inside on a hitter, but end up cutting across the inside portion of the...
Let’s start by acknowledging that baseball is really hard. It’s hard for hitters, who over the last decade have had to keep up with rising velocities, increasing spin, and greater extension from pitchers. And...
A couple weeks ago, Jeff Passan wrote an article for ESPN on a trio of talented Red Sox prospects: Kristian Campbell, Roman Anthony, and Marcelo Mayer. The overarching theme of that article, as I...
The creation and availability of pitch tracking technology has naturally beget all types of interest and analysis, and for good reason. Pitch characteristic data is rich in information and offers a path to better...
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