The creation and availability of pitch tracking technology has naturally beget all types of interest and analysis, and for good reason. Pitch characteristic data is rich in information and offers a path to better...
When creating digital products, like websites or apps, an important step is to conduct performance testing, which according to Wikipedia is “performed to determine how a system performs in terms of responsiveness and stability under a...
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...
There is a fragment of a Virginia Woolf quote that has long stuck out to me. In her essay On Being Ill, Woolf states that “…to hinder the description of illness in literature, there...
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...
I have talked about the 200-inning threshold a couple times before. In the middle of the 2019 season, I checked up on the pitchers on pace to surpass that threshold. At the conclusion of...
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