Luck invariably plays a role in all baseball players’ individual performances. Try as they might, baseball fans, players, and analysts will always compete with those fickle forces, which obscure the pure performance of any...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The last decade for the Texas Rangers has been a tale of two halves. The first half of the 2010s featured unprecedented success for the franchise; alternatively the latter half, bluntly put, was a...
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...
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...
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...
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