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How Good Has the Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka Been?

The major league career of Masahiro Tanaka, the rookie pitcher from Japan signed by the New York Yankees during the offseason, is off to a blazing start. Tanaka mowed down 11 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim batters Sunday night, giving him 46 strikeouts for the 2014 season; according to the Elias Sports Bureau, that’s the third-most strikeouts by any […]

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How Good Has the Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka Been?

The major league career of Masahiro Tanaka, the rookie pitcher from Japan signed by the New York Yankees during the offseason, is off to a blazing start. Tanaka mowed down 11 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim batters Sunday night, giving him 46 strikeouts for the 2014 season; according to the Elias Sports Bureau, that’s the third-most strikeouts by any […]

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Mark Buehrle Is a One-Man Baseball-Game Accelerator

As my colleagues have pointed out on DataLab, FiveThirtyEight readers are great. The latest example: One perceptive reader saw my article about the slowdown of Major League Baseball games and suggested that the designated-hitter rule might explain why the slowest teams are in the American League, whose clubs play with the DH in their home […]

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Mark Buehrle Is a One-Man Baseball-Game Accelerator

As my colleagues have pointed out on DataLab, FiveThirtyEight readers are great. The latest example: One perceptive reader saw my article about the slowdown of Major League Baseball games and suggested that the designated-hitter rule might explain why the slowest teams are in the American League, whose clubs play with the DH in their home […]

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Pace Is the Most Consistent Pitching Stat

In my article Friday about what’s slowing down Major League Baseball games, I use a relatively new stat called “pace.” It’s a measure of how much time elapses between pitches in the same plate appearance, making use of the PITCHf/x tracking system installed in every major league park. It can be applied to pitchers for all […]

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