What follows was inspired by an interesting podcast episode by NPR’s Planet Money, which outlined one potential process for identifying “The Modal American.” The podcast’s creators suggested that, while people often refer to the...
Wins Above Replacement, or WAR, has become a pervasive statistic in baseball in recent years. The concept of evaluating a baseball player through the lens of wins, and in the context of his theoretical...
Earlier in June, Craig Edwards of FanGraphs wrote a really interesting piece about Mike Trout, and a hypothetical world in which Trout played just 50 games every year. This came on the heels of...
If you are one to find yourself reading obscure baseball blogs, such as this one, you’re likely aware that strikeouts are on the rise in MLB. Pitcher value has increasingly been tied to strikeout...
Please note before reading: there are contradicting profiles of pitch classifications/usage in the case of Zack Wheeler. I have used Baseball Savant’s pitch classifications, but am aware that Brooks Baseball, for one, presents an...
Drew Gagnon is not, shall we say, a household name. Mets fans, holding all else equal, might be most familiar with his career, but particularly fastidious baseball fans might just as well have familiarity...
There will either be a truncated 2020 MLB season or no MLB season at all. While this fact is due to a phenomenon drastically more serious and important than baseball, it gives way to...
An evolving phenomenon in baseball is that of pitch design. In general terms, pitch design entails making adjustments a to players’ pitch(es) based on that pitches attributes. This could be achieved a plethora of...
Modern baseball statistics are often made easy to interpret. Many statistics available come pre-normalized and with many facets of a player’s production baked in. This post focuses on two such statistics, FanGraphs’ Off and...
Fans of baseball have, to varying degrees, a fair understanding of what defines any given pitch type. Fastballs are defined by features like high velocity, backspin, and a straight flight path, relatively speaking. Curveballs...
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