Archive for the 'Statcast' Category

Baseball’s new numbers and the performance of athletes around the world can help us estimate how an elite woman player might perform.

With four and a half years of launch angle and exit velocity metrics available to us, let’s investigate how aging affects each of them.

Is the spin revolution benefiting taller hurlers the most?

Batted-Ball Run Value offers a new (and improved) way to measure batters’ value.

Just how much error is there in Statcast?

Can a machine really call balls and strikes more accurately (and quickly) than a human?

Fan Scouting could bring another way to deepen the connection between the people in the stands and the game on the field.

Digging into the data to see how it is being accounted for and how best to move forward.

There are numerous ways to show just how bad pitchers are when it’s their turn to bat.

Clayton Kershaw’s been giving up dingers this year. Weird. Should we worry about it?