Factors influencing victory or defeat in the All-Japan Senior High School Baseball Championship Tournament: A comparison of team skills in pitching, battin... Pitching strength, batting strength, and defensive strength were calculated using Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP), On-base Plus Slugging (...
The ball weighs 4 pounds. He has calculated that if these guys can throw it 40 mph, holding it with both hands and releasing it over their heads like a soccer throw-in, they can throw a baseball 90 mph from the mound. And if they can't throw a baseball 90 mph, they...
which win-later clubs ignored save for a Duda here or a Maybin there. Maybe it’s that so much in baseball feels transactional and calculated; this offseason showed that all 30 teams are closely aligned in their player valuations, and a deluge of numbers and projections make the game feel...
The essentials of a baseball projection system understand that an outsized performance – either better or worse than a player’s true talent – cannot sustain in the long run. Any reasonably good projection system knows that a player’s ability at age 40 is almost always worse than the same...