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...
Author: Ben Perry
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...
Checking In On the Humble Changeup
The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said “perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” One can go about interpreting such...
Contextualizing Velocity and the Absence of Strikeouts
Brusdar Graterol and Dustin May are the subjects of this post. They are of particular interest given the Dodgers’ recent World Series victory, as well as in their own right, being talented pitchers. Primarily...
In-Zone, Out-of-Zone, Hot-Zone, Cold-Zone: Batter Contact Rates
Hitters, it turns out, are pitched to differently based on their strengths and weaknesses. For their part, pitchers can choose what to throw those hitters and in what order, all the while doing their...
Will the Real Joey Gallo Please Stand Up
Joey Gallo, now several seasons into his Major League career and still just 26, has felt like a known commodity for years. He has proved himself to be a capable Major League regular, an...