Over the last handful of years, metrics like average launch angle and pull% have made their way into increasingly broad and casual baseball discussions. And for good reason; those metrics are quite interesting and...
There is a fragment of a Virginia Woolf quote that has long stuck out to me. In her essay On Being Ill, Woolf states that “…to hinder the description of illness in literature, there...
Creating projections for MLB players seems to me all at once a Herculean and a Sisyphean task. Creating (“good”) projections is of course quite technically rigorous in the first place, and maintaining those projections...
The title of this post does not exactly mince words. Should that be all the context you need (TL;DR), it would be fair to move on. However, for those looking for a greater explanation,...
It seems as though almost all media consumed today comes to us by way of ads or sponsorships. Of course, this blog post isn’t sponsored by anything (nor does its traffic warrant such consideration),...
Luck invariably plays a role in all baseball players’ individual performances. Try as they might, baseball fans, players, and analysts will always compete with those fickle forces, which obscure the pure performance of any...
The 2021 MLB playoffs have, at this late stage, seemingly been dominated by pitching considerations. Load management, relief pitcher usage, and cherry-picked matchups are all at the forefront of managerial considerations and decisions. Pitcher...
If you watch baseball games, which you probably do if you find yourself reading this, you’re likely familiar with announcers employing phrases like “he just went with it” or “hit it where it was...
In the context of 2020s baseball, doubles in some ways have an uphill battle to capture our attention. After all, home runs are generally hit farther! And harder! Home runs are crucially less subject...
Earlier this year, I took a hack at defining what I referred to as pitch mix variation. Pitch mix variation, as I conceived of it at least, would be a single number to capture...
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