Category: Visualizations

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”,...

Earlier in June, Craig Edwards of FanGraphs wrote a really interesting piece about Mike Trout, and a hypothetical world in which Trout played just 50 games every year. This came on the heels of...

If you are one to find yourself reading obscure baseball blogs, such as this one, you’re likely aware that strikeouts are on the rise in MLB. Pitcher value has increasingly been tied to strikeout...

An evolving phenomenon in baseball is that of pitch design. In general terms, pitch design entails making adjustments a to players’ pitch(es) based on that pitches attributes. This could be achieved a plethora of...

Below are three tables which briefly summarize multi-year free agency this past decade. The pace, trend, and equitability of free agency in recent years, in tandem with the noteworthy Winter Meetings earlier this month...

It’s no surprise that the amount of innings that starting pitchers throw each year is on the decline. It has been covered already here, in fact. That prior post emphasized an innings threshold that...

This is a post about Albert Pujols.  In his prime, Albert Pujols was one of the best baseball players of an entire era, a time during which he built the very formidable foundation of...

As MLB’s 2019 Opening Day nears, managers seemingly take turns naming their starters of choice to begin their teams’ season.  It is of note that Felix Hernandez will not, for the first time in...

Here are two auxiliary plots in conjunction to the post made last week.  They provide a bit more insight into players who have been drafted in the first round over the past 19 amateur...