February 10, 2012
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About Mike FastMike is an engineer by day and a husband, dad of four, and professional baseball consultant by night. He has been a Kansas City Royals fan since 1986 and was introduced to his love of baseball analysis by Bill James through the Baseball Abstract series. Mike resides in Austin, Texas. You can find some of his earlier work at his Fast Balls blog. He is a member of Complete Game Consulting.Note: This page displays up to 100 articles at a time. To view a subset of a writer's work, click on one of the following years: 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 Mike Fast's ArticlesClick here to view an RSS feed of this writer's articles. 2010Book review: ‘Positional Hitting’October 01, 2010The instructional hitting book by Jaime Cevallos THT Live: Pitchers nowadays are on speedSeptember 03, 2010A digital salute to pitch gripsAugust 30, 2010Proposing a quantitative method for recording how pitchers grip the baseball THT Live: A Minor reportAugust 10, 2010THT Live: Leaders in kwERAAugust 04, 2010THT Live: What does Hellickson throw? I don’t know.August 03, 2010Selective HarenJuly 30, 2010What does the new Angel throw? THT Live: A very important article on fieldingJuly 28, 2010THT Live: Can we objectively evaluate advanced fielding data?July 16, 2010THT Live: Were the All Stars really throwing that hard?July 15, 2010THT Live: The palm ballJuly 11, 2010THT Live: Red Sox opposition running gameJune 26, 2010Four plus pitchesJune 23, 2010An analysis of Stephen Strasburg's pitching approach from five games of PITCHf/x data The Internet cried a little when you wrote that on itJune 17, 2010Avoiding potential pitfalls of PITCHf/x analysis THT Live: Strasburg from the stretchJune 17, 2010THT Live: How slow could you throw?June 14, 2010THT Live: The shuutoJune 01, 2010THT Live: Objective knowledgeJune 01, 2010Dallas Braden and the screwballMay 14, 2010Did Dallas Braden throw a screwball in his perfect game? THT Live: Does the stretch cost a pitcher fastball speed?April 20, 2010THT Live: From Twitter: UZR and Plus/MinusApril 13, 2010THT Live: Red Sox-Yankees slow gamesApril 13, 2010THT Live: Gameday-PITCHf/x changes for 2010April 07, 2010THT Live: Communication?April 06, 2010Lose a tick, gain a tickApril 05, 2010What happens when a pitcher loses or gains speed on his fastball? THT Live: Data analysis - the SQLApril 05, 2010THT Live: Great. I have to get my calculator out of the trash now?March 24, 2010THT Live: Drawing statistical conclusions in baseballMarch 23, 2010THT Live: C. Trent Rosecrans interviews Bill JamesMarch 21, 2010THT Live: Supermen aren’t dead yet!March 03, 2010THT Live: Yadier Molina, hit-and-run plays, and ideas for a studyFebruary 24, 2010THT Live: The true life story of baseballsFebruary 18, 2010 | ||||