The college baseball season started over the weekend and it provided an opportunity to watch players for the first time in about 11 months. The University of Miami took the series against the number one ranked Florida Gators and the …
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Statcast has provided data from Trackman and Hawkeye that can be better used to evaluate players using quantitative data. I’ve already looked at spring speed and how it relates with the scouting grade for a player’s run with today looking …
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The New York Yankees this offseason have acquired two starting pitchers that both deepens their starting rotation and acquires players who have strong right tail outcomes where these players have shown the ability to lead rotations in the past. The …
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In baseball, there’s three main scouting methods: Future Value (placing a grade on the 20-80 scale), Overall Future Potential (OFP; the 75th percentile on the 20-80 scale), and the Theo Epstein scale (which uses a letter and number system). Translating …
Yesterday, Baseball Prospectus has released their 2021 PECOTA Projections. Darius Austin wrote a good primer on depth charts and playing time inputs that are put into the model, a human and not machine led process. It’s a good primer to …
The Pittsburgh Pirates made the playoffs every year between 2013-2015 before struggling in 2016 and 2017 for various different reasons between injury and regression in performance. The club surprisingly was only seven games behind the Cubs for the division and …
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James Surowiecki wrote The Wisdom of Crowds back in 2004 discussing the power that crowds have over one person when it comes to predictions and there are three conditions that need to be met for a wise crowd: Diversity Independent …
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MLB started using a radar based solution called Trackman back in 2015 for player tracking and they introduced a new measurement in 2017 called sprint speed with the metric being updated in 2018. We can use this information to understand …
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On Christmas Eve, the Pirates and Washington Nationals came to a deal with the Pirates shipping off first baseman Josh Bell (28) for pitchers Wil Crowe (26) and Eddy Yean (19.5). For the Nationals, the club needed a first baseman …
Given the MLB draft situation, where there is a cap on the amount teams can spend on amateur talent, knowing the amount a team has to work with can be beneficial when it comes to publicly analyzing the draft. With …