The rebuilding Baltimore Orioles hope Adley Rutschman becomes the new face of the franchise. Dubbed the best MLB draft prospect since Bryce Harper by Baseball America, Rutschman was taken with the first overall pick in last June, the first full-time catcher selected No. 1 since Joe Mauer in 2001. But he could also become a […]
Baseball is changing. I suppose that’s nothing new — baseball has always been changing, but now novel technologies and team philosophies are reshaping the game to a near-unprecedented degree. Pitch tracking, new kinds of defensive positioning, hyper-specialized relief pitching — all are altering the tactical landscape of MLB. FiveThirtyEight’s season preview is about some of […]
Baseball is changing. I suppose that’s nothing new — baseball has always been changing, but now novel technologies and team philosophies are reshaping the game to a near-unprecedented degree. Pitch tracking, new kinds of defensive positioning, hyper-specialized relief pitching — all are altering the tactical landscape of MLB. FiveThirtyEight’s season preview is about some of […]
As the godfather of sabermetrics, Bill James, has noted, baseball is — at its core — a game of controlling the strike zone. Indeed, how much can we tell about a team just from its basic strike-zone indicators? Specifically, there were two metrics I wanted to look at. The first is James’s strike-zone win-loss percentage, which […]
As the godfather of sabermetrics, Bill James, has noted, baseball is — at its core — a game of controlling the strike zone. Indeed, how much can we tell about a team just from its basic strike-zone indicators? Specifically, there were two metrics I wanted to look at. The first is James’s strike-zone win-loss percentage, which […]
