Pitch Type Guessing Game This is a game to guess the type of pitch a pitcher threw. It shuffles through random videos of every pitch thrown last season. Player Chart Guessing Game This is a game to guess a players pitch/spray chart based only off pitch type and location of pitches or ...
The only bright lights in 2014 were the young and athletic Mookie Betts, a blocked second baseman who they set loose in the outfield, young catcher, Christian Vazquez, with his cannon of an arm and pitch framing skills, and utility extraordinaire, Brock Holt, who did everything but pitch an...
Justin Mason: This is really tough because I like all three. I guess I lean Ober here. 10:13 KC Pain: Is Blanco a top 25 SP ROS? Every time I doubt him he seems to do well. 10:14 Justin Mason: I am not ready to go that high, but top 40, yes ...
Over the years, the general perception of shortstops has evolved from “Well, I guess it’s okay if he can’t hit.” to “Wow, he’s the best player on his team!”. Whereas the shortstops of old were heralded for their defensive capabilities, modern shortstops are preternatural athletes...
All of this is bizarre in context, as an advanced hit tool was a huge driver of his amateur profile, but Lewis now looks like a guess hitter. His mannerisms — Nomar-level batting glove tinkering; deep, heavy, deliberate breaths between pitches; constant uniform adjustment — are manic, ...
If you had to guess which hitter turned the worst pitch into a home run, Rosario would be a solid choice. He has a wonderful combination of skills that make him a solid bad ball hitter. He’s a free swinger with good feel to hit, so he makes a ton of contact, both inside and ou...
Ask someone to name the most unhittable pitch in baseball and you're likely to get a variety of answers. Of course, unhittable is usually figurative. Even the nastiest offerings yield hits from time to time. But so far this season, one pitcher has a pitc
International brackets, therefore ensuring a championship game featuring an American team and an international team. And while Chinese Taipei was dominant for much of the mid-late 20th century, over the past three decades, there have been two clear titans whose names you can probably guess: USA ...
and this data is provided in the same Baseball Savant files that record Statcast numbers. By regressing the batted ball characteristics on the stringer coordinates (in cases where we have both datasets), I can substitute in the best guess about batted ball characteristics on the occasions when th...
His voting problem is that he is widely acclaimed as the second -best leadoff man we've known, and that's not good enough, I guess. He's another guy who had his very best years up there where they speak French and he kinda fell under the radar. He had a career OBP of .413 ...