Last year, I wrote a post which outlined the application of a K Nearest Neighbors algorithm to make pitch classifications. This post will be, in some ways, an extension of that as pitches will...
It should come as no great surprise that versatility is an attractive trait in just about any profession; baseball is no exception. Defensive prowess and versatility, skills that have become more clearly quantifiable in...
Several weeks ago I took a rough hack at quantifying the variation of any given pitcher’s pitch mix. As a step back, and tangential extension of that exercise, below is a very general summary...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As the truncated 2020 regular season wraps up, it’s a good time to take a look at some of the trends that this unprecedented seasonal format has given way to. Among all these changes...
It probably does not come as a great surprise to hear that, on average, MLB players are getting younger. There are a handful of possible reasons for that trend. Significantly, younger players are paid...
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