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...
Baseball fans love to speculate on their teams’ top prospects. It is a way to embrace (or perhaps more often, disparage) front office decisions (all from the comfort of your couch!) as well as...
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...
Adolis García has been a revelation for the Texas Rangers this season. García, who didn’t make the Rangers Opening Day roster, has been quick to make up for lost time since being promoted on...
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...
The 2020 baseball season did not go as planned for Kyle Gibson. Of course, that’s likely a fair statement for all players given obvious 2020-specific reasons. Gibson, however, did not get off to a...
Last month, Fernando Tatís Jr. signed a record-setting contract with the San Diego Padres. However, this post doesn’t have much to do with the Padres or even their relationship with Fernando Tatís Jr. Rather,...
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...
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