by: SandwichPick
Ever since bat tracking data went live on May 13, 2024, there has been a question that has been on the back of my mind. To set up this question, let’s walk through a hypothetical position player’s career. Consider a hitter who has a reputation for being “streaky”, we’ll call this player, let’s say, Michael […]
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Welcome to the 2nd “Half” of the 2025 season. I put half in quotations because we are actually 59.5% through the season, MLB teams have played 1,446 games, and only have 984 games left on the schedule (assuming they all get played). In most Head-to-Head leagues, we have much less than half a season left. […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?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 […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?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 […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?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, […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?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 […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?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 […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?The early bird gets the worm, and nowhere else are there more worms to be had than the waiver wire of available relief pitchers in your league. Each year we watch the demise of established capital-C “Closers”, who cost fantasy managers a decent penny in draft price, as other fantasy managers scoop up their understudy […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?If you’re in a bowling league, you wouldn’t expect people to track how good you’ll be in actual competition based on what you rolled just messing around with your friends. Yet, in the world of baseball, we attempt to keep track of wOBA and wRC+ for the 28~35 games that don’t even count. […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? by: SandwichPick
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 […]
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If you’ve heard of the Three Body Problem, you know that while it is possible to model the movement of two objects orbiting each other in space, it is impossible to accurately model the movement of three (or more) objects orbiting each other in space Modeling a baseball lineup over the course of a 162 […]
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