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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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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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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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 …