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About Max Marchi

Max is a statistician who does analysis on infectious diseases as a day job. When he is at home his attention shifts toward baseball data.


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Max Marchi's Articles

2009

Medium and short-time pitch memory

November 20, 2009
Do batters time a breaking pitch in their first at-bat, then crush it when they see it on their second trip to the plate?


The 2009 Yogi Berra Award

November 06, 2009
Batters who chase pitches way out of the zone.

Fast in April, slow in September?

October 09, 2009
Max explores the effect that workloads early in the season have on a pitcher's fastball speed by the end of the summer.

Padres hitters and backward pitching

September 25, 2009
Being a rent-a-analyst for one day—for MGL.

THT Live: The extinction of Zito’s hard curve: a brief follow-up

September 12, 2009

The extinction of Zito’s hard curve

September 11, 2009
The Giants lefty has traded one of his curves for a slider, with good results.

We should’ve got the live chicken

September 04, 2009
Can a fast runner help a fastball hitter?

Marco Scutaro’s little things

August 14, 2009
He can bunt, he's a good two strikes hitter, he can play D and he runs the bases well.

Guarding the lines

July 31, 2009
Max tests the validity of an old baseball credo.

Master of fooling

July 03, 2009
A tour inside Johan Santana's change-up and its deception.

Take it easy with your colleagues

June 19, 2009
Do pitchers throw differently to other pitchers?

Slicing and dicing the strike zone by pitch

June 05, 2009
Rules for success from PITCHf/x: Paint the corners, don't hang the breaking balls and fire the high heater.

Don’t take the spray pattern lightly

May 22, 2009
Max shows a way to weight batted balls to get closer to an optimal defensive alignment

A step in the right direction

May 08, 2009
Fine tuning the positioning of fielders according to pitch selection

What did Warren Spahn know?

April 24, 2009
Painting the corners: How important is it for a pitcher?

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