In a previous post I discussed the idea of using a player’s expected batting average (xBA) to analyze how “lucky” hitters are getting in terms of BABIP. During this process, I put a lot of thought into what it means for a player to be getting a lot of hits on balls in play; Are […]

In my previous post two weeks ago I introduced the concept of tracking Squared-Up Rate against Attack Angle to measure the quality of contact. Included in the post was the roadmap of SPs showing which town they lived in: In the two weeks since, we’ve seen Disaster Town residents have bad starts (Jose Soriano, Max […]

Progress Check: We are now about 32% of the way through the season, and Memorial Day – a day people say standings start to matter – is 4 days away. The Pete Crow-Armstrong breakout is legitimate, and you’ve held onto Sandy Alcantara for too long. Referring to a post I made back on March 15th, […]

Progress Check: We’re now about 23% of the way through the season, and Memorial Day – a day people say standings start to matter – is 18 days away. The point has come where we can’t simply dismiss 6 week long struggles as flukes, and 6 week long breakouts as hot streaks. Statements like “Tanner […]

We’re approximately 15% of the way through the season and have no idea who the Cy Young winners are going to be, but as crazy as it sounds we have a pretty good idea of which pitchers it won’t be, and if you don’t believe me, you’re gonna wanna read to the end of this […]

If you’re as online as a normal Razzball reader would be, you’ve seen a lot of talk about MLB Statcast’s new bat tracking metrics. Bat Tracking data was officially introduced to the public last year on May 13, starting with data for the 2024 season, and since then they’ve backfilled data up to the All […]