Looking Back at Pitch Mix Variation in 2023
Awhile back I took a hack at introducing a catchall metric to describe how much pitchers vary their pitch offerings, i.e. how often they throw distinct pitch types. I called that metric Pitch Mix...
Tagged: Complete Game Loss
How Many Starters Do Teams Use in a Season?
One of the bigger stories of the 2023 season to this point, rather unfortunately, involves underperformance; specifically, the story of the highly paid and underperforming Mets. Through July 21st, the $445 million dollar (after...
Changing Speeds: A Pitch by Pitch Breakdown
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...
Are Hitters Hitting It Where It’s Being Pitched?
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...
Catching Up with the Oft-Overlooked Double
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...
More Ways to Measure Pitch Mix Variation
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...
Contextualizing 2021 for the Texas Rangers
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...