The underlying thesis of today’s topic comes from one of my favorite tweets of all time: A 22 year old pitcher makes his debut, he faces (likely) a favorable matchup against a team like the Rockies or Angels at home. The pitcher strikes out seven in 6 innings while scattering six hits and only walking […]

The borderline strike call/non-call is the most emotionally charged call in a baseball game. It turns what could’ve been a salvageable 1-1 count into a 0-2 hole, it turns a possible big punch out into a bases loaded walk. The calls are (seemingly) 50/50, which drives the frustration for teams/players because if it seems the […]

Two weeks ago, I wrote about how we’re kind of over fantasy baseball for the year. Now, with football starting, a month left in the baseball regular season, many fantasy league formats entering their final weeks already, we’re really over it. Nevertheless, there is more to bring to you, readers here at Mr. Magorium’s Stat […]

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 […]

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 […]