Over the last handful of years, metrics like average launch angle and pull% have made their way into increasingly broad and casual baseball discussions. And for good reason; those metrics are quite interesting and...
The 2021 MLB playoffs have, at this late stage, seemingly been dominated by pitching considerations. Load management, relief pitcher usage, and cherry-picked matchups are all at the forefront of managerial considerations and decisions. Pitcher...
In the context of 2020s baseball, doubles in some ways have an uphill battle to capture our attention. After all, home runs are generally hit farther! And harder! Home runs are crucially less subject...
It shouldn’t come as any great surprise to a typical baseball fan that Dominican players play an outsized role in Major League Baseball today. In fact, the Dominican Republic, which has a population roughly...
Earlier this week I read a really interesting piece on Fangraphs by Brendan Gawlowski relating to league-wide batting averages. Gawlowski remarked that the league’s cumulative batting average, through just a few days ago, was...
This will be a visual post. Pitch type data, aggregated at a team-wide level by FanGraphs, has been visualized below in six different snapshots. These charts offer insight into how teams generally pitched in...
The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said “perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” One can go about interpreting such...
Brusdar Graterol and Dustin May are the subjects of this post. They are of particular interest given the Dodgers’ recent World Series victory, as well as in their own right, being talented pitchers. Primarily...
The concept of launch angle has successfully embedded itself in the minds and lexicons of baseball players, coaches, and fans over the past decade. Several high-profile players have acted as ambassadors to the so-called...
This post piggybacks on a really interesting piece from Jay Jaffe of FanGraphs, who, a couple days ago, examined in depth the changing workloads of starting pitchers in 2020. Between a truncated “Summer Camp”,...
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