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...
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...
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...
When I was in Little League, it was a common refrain of coaches that not all walks were created equal, and that some were particularly egregious to permit. That is because walks, like all...
It should come as no surprise to anyone reading this that, to put it lightly, Juan Soto is incredibly good at baseball. Still just 25 (26 later in October), Soto is all but certain...
To this point the here at the end of August, the Diamondbacks have had quite the second half. As of July 16th, the date of the 2024 MLB All Star Game, the Diamondbacks were...
There are a plethora of ways to consider power in the context of hitting a baseball. One may count things like home runs, extra base hits, hard hit balls, barrels, blasts and more; alternatively,...
Awhile back, I coined a term for a three true outcome metric called a “Gallo”. That term describes a game wherein a player gets three or more plate appearances, all of which result in...
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