Let’s Make a New Three True Outcomes Metric
Last month on June 9th, the Yankees had a good win against the Twins in Minnesota. Down 7-3 early in the contest, the Yankees went on to score 7 unanswered runs to win 10-7....
Category: Quantitative
The Final Step: Hitting in the Major Leagues
Few things are so exciting as a promotion. A promotion generally represents a lot of time, energy, and focus devoted to a role. While all promotions are special, there is a legitimate argument to...
Who is Leveraging, or Squandering, their Sprint Speed
The premise of this blog post can be summarized in a couple questions: (1) what is the relationship between player sprint speed and player value on the base paths and (2) which players are...
A Brief Investigation of Spiked Curveballs
This post is all about curveballs; specifically, those that are spiked. Of course, unavoidably, all types of pitches get spiked at least once in a while, but curveballs likely end up in the dirt...
Pitch Classifications and Baseball’s Poverty of Language
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...
Starting Pitchers Aren’t Leaning on Their Best Pitches
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,...
Comparing Release Points in Three Dimensional Spaces
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),...
Are Hitters Hitting It Where It’s Being Pitched?
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...
More Ways to Measure Pitch Mix Variation
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...
Getting to Know Exit Velocity Distributions
Although they offer really helpful snapshots of particular data points, measures of central tendency (mean, mode, etc.) sometimes leave a lot to be desired. To help with that, there are all sorts of measures...
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