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March 29, 2008

Foulke tales

Keith Foulke returns to the major leagues this year after a one-year retirement. After battling knee injuries in 2005 and 2006, Foulke retired just prior to the 2007 season. He has rejoined the Oakland Athletics for 2008 and is expected to fill a key role in their bullpen.

We have PITCHf/x data for his appearance against the Giants today, and I thought it would be interesting to see how hard he was throwing and what his pitch selection was.
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Posted by: Mike Fast

Masahide Kobayashi brief scouting report

The Cleveland Indians signed Masahide Kobayashi from the Chiba Lotte Marines over the winter to join their bullpen. The PITCHf/x system was turned on in Atlanta tonight, and Kobayashi pitched the 7th inning in a rain-shortened game. The Braves scored five runs against Kobayashi on five hits, one walk, and three errors, and it would appear that the weather was affecting the results. Nonetheless, I wanted to give a short report on Kobayashi's pitch repertoire in the game since is he new to Major League Baseball this year.
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Posted by: Mike Fast

Friday fastball speeds

I'm browsing through the pitch data from Friday's games where the PITCHf/x system was turned on, and here are some of the average fastball speeds for pitchers who pitched in those games. Take them for what they're worth.
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Posted by: Mike Fast

March 29, 2007

Wall Street Journal Appearance

The Wall Street Journal's daily sports column, The Daily Fix, asked a bunch of top-notch Internet baseball writers for their 2007 predictions. And they asked me, too. It's entertaining reading despite my best efforts to ruin it, so run on over and check it out.
Posted by: Dave Studeman

March 18, 2007

Season Preview Update

They say that, in baseball, you have to be able to accept failure (after all, even the best hitters make outs over 60% of the time). Well, the same is true in baseball publishing.

We found a couple of mistakes in our projections. Actually, just two pitcher projections were off, which is pretty darn good. But one of them was Francisco Rodriguez of the Angels (the other was Brian Tallet) so we figured we'd better correct them. Also, David has improved his pitcher projection methodology a bit by refining the batted ball regression calculations. So, we've posted a new spreadsheet of projections, under the same URL from which you downloaded the original projections. Just turn to page 11 of your book for details.

Also, those of you who bought the first few printed versions of the book probably noticed some weird black type on the cover. If you got one like that, congratulations! Thanks to my screw-up, you've got something that will be a collector's item years from now. Seriously, the cover has been fixed and most of you received a clean version. I just hope Aaron Reynolds doesn't get too mad at me for messing up his awesome cover photo.
Posted by: Dave Studeman


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