How PITCHf/x informed Nick Hagadone’s offseason improvements.
Using topological data analysis to define the six archetypes of the modern ballplayer.
Major-League teams can’t leave it to chance that their leaders will be leaders.
Looking at the Giants’ never-changing bullpen.
How the Orioles excel at picking up players from the discard pile who immediately produce.
Which teams’ rotations will survive the inevitable blowing up?
What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about Clayton Kershaw.
Among all the things that don’t matter, might logos not matter a bit less?
The realigning of pitching supremacy.
A pitcher with some filthy stuff coming off a mini-breakout year in his mid-20s. Sounds like Kluber, right?
What losing the All-Star game means for Baltimore.
The simplest pitcher in baseball gets progressively more ridiculous.
Brandon McCarthy’s breaker did different things last year, and so did Brandon McCarthy.
Exploring the league’s curveballs, we find two excellent breakers that changed dramatically last year–though in surprising ways.