There are main stays for evaluating defense. FanGraphs provides the results for Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR) and Defensive Runs Saved (DRS), Baseball Prospectus has Fielding Runs Above Average (FRAA), and Baseball Savant has released Outs Above Average (OAA), using Statcast …
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Major League Baseball has mandated a 60 game season, which will cause changes in the playoffs. Baseball is the proverbial marathon where one game doesn’t mean as much given the amount of games played. Over a 162 game season, the …
Last week, I gave my general thoughts about the draft and a deep review of the Pittsburgh Pirates draft, including a breakdown of what Nick Garcia, Jack Hartman, and Logan Hofmann’s Trackman data were. This post will be about updating …
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The Major League Draft finished up last Friday, where the Big Board provided the consensus of ESPN, Keith Law, Baseball America, MLB Pipeline, and FanGraphs draft rankings, taking only the top 100 players. This Big Board provided a consensus view …
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Statcast, through the use of Trackman and soon to be Hawkeye, has provided data on exit velocities, launch angles, and other varies inputs. This allowed Dr. Jim Albert, of Bowling Green State, to creating a model to estimate the probability …
Major League Baseball and the Players Association are negotiating to play the 2020 season. The latest proposal is a 76 game season with 75 of a percent prorated salary, or in other words, 35 percent of their initial salary (76/162*0.75). …
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I recently wrote about projecting the 2020 MLB Draft, providing the full methodology and data used for the model, the limitations, and ways to improve the model. It was inspired by the NFL Draft modeling done by ESPN, and it’s …
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The MLB Draft starts on June 10th, with this year being five rounds this year with all undrafted free agents capped at $20,000. There are three types of people when it comes to risk: risk averse, risk neutral, and risk …
On Monday, Mike Persak of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote on a piece called “Pirates on pause: Is it time to be more aggressive on the bases?” Mike had a conclusion of “Basically, the Pirates weren’t very aggressive with stealing bases, …
The MLB Draft allows for teams to add to their organization through a process of selecting players starting with the 1965 draft. In 2002, the Oakland Athletics draft was deemed the Moneyball Draft as the organization tried to use statistical …