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...
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...
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...
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...
High-FIP pitchers have a pretty rough time of it these days. FIP gets thrown around in common conversation more than ever and, per the nature of FIP (or more accurately, xFIP), high-FIP players must...
This post comes about after having perused 2019’s Pythagorean records, and is admittedly a bit meandering. In an attempt to pin down where this meandering content goes, below are the three primary takeaways I...
In the past couple of years, a growing number of MLB hitters have been making some changes. Those changes, to grossly oversimplify, have generally been made in an effort to get the ball in...
Anthony Rendon had an eventful 2019. Chief among those events were a World Series title and a new nine-figure contract. Of lesser, but still significant note, was that Rendon was a first time All-Star....
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