The Early Season Emergence of Adolis García
Adolis García has been a revelation for the Texas Rangers this season. García, who didn’t make the Rangers Opening Day roster, has been quick to make up for lost time since being promoted on...
Author: Ben
Popular Metric Trends Through the Lens of Percentage Change
Earlier this week I read a really interesting piece on Fangraphs by Brendan Gawlowski relating to league-wide batting averages. Gawlowski remarked that the league’s cumulative batting average, through just a few days ago, was...
Early Signs are Good for Kyle Gibson’s Cutter
The 2020 baseball season did not go as planned for Kyle Gibson. Of course, that’s likely a fair statement for all players given obvious 2020-specific reasons. Gibson, however, did not get off to a...
Opportunity, Leverage, and The Road to the Majors
Last month, Fernando Tatís Jr. signed a record-setting contract with the San Diego Padres. However, this post doesn’t have much to do with the Padres or even their relationship with Fernando Tatís Jr. Rather,...
One Way to Quantify Pitch Mix Variation
What follows is a general attempt to create a super simple, catch-all metric that aims to define how varied any given pitcher’s pitch mix is, relative to the rest of the league. My goal...
Was 2020 a Death Knell for the 200 Inning Starter?
I have talked about the 200-inning threshold a couple times before. In the middle of the 2019 season, I checked up on the pitchers on pace to surpass that threshold. At the conclusion of...
Who Has Been Avoiding, or Getting Burnt by, Multi-Run Home Runs?
What follows is largely about home runs. In short, I was curious to know what percentage of home runs were multi-run home runs and in turn what percentage were of the solo variety. From...
On the Value of Sprint Speed
Baseball players, you’ll be surprised to hear, are evaluated in part based on how fast they are. You know: speed is one of the five tools! To that end, what follows briefly examines player...
When is the Rangers’ Window?
Last offseason, I considered the Rangers’ “skinny rebuild” and posited that 2020 would be a crucial season for determining its success. Toward the conclusion of the regular season, Dan Szymborski of FanGraphs also wrote,...
2020 Team Pitch Usage In Six Charts
This will be a visual post. Pitch type data, aggregated at a team-wide level by FanGraphs, has been visualized below in six different snapshots. These charts offer insight into how teams generally pitched in...