It is October, the Indians have once again made the postseason but failed to bring home the coveted World Series title and the ‘curse’ moves on another year. Many of the Indians players didn’t play to their potential in the
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Category: Analytics
Analytics and its effects on the MLB – The Bunt
Each year I see another ex-professional baseball player come out and say analytics is ‘killing the game’, this year it was the ex-Nationals and Phillies outfielders Jayson Werth. In August he said “I think it’s killing the game. It’s to
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1st Half Vs 2nd Half Comparisons – Hitters
In MVP voting, recency bias is going to be a factor and that can’t be helped. With that in mind, I wondered who were the top performers for the first half of the season vs the second half. Fangraphs has
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The Cy Young Case for Blake Treinen
The following is a case for why Blake Treinen should be considered as a Cy Young candidate. I am not certain if he should win but what I am about to detail is why he should get some votes and
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15 things you might not know about the National League so far in 2018
Here is the follow up list for the National League based of the article I did for the American league here a few days ago, as before I have given one per team. Please note that a qualified players have
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Yoan Moncada and his ever increasing strikeouts
In March 2015, the Boston Red Sox paid $63m to gain the services of one Yoan Moncada. The bill was split 50/50, $31.5m signing bonus and $31.5m for an MLB-issued tax penalty due to the Red Sox destroying the bonus
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15 things you might not know about the American League so far in 2018
When you spend yours days looking through MLB stats for various things you start to find some stats about a few players and teams that are quite interesting. Most of these aren’t enough to flesh out into full articles but
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The Rays Are Breaking Baseball (Records)
This season the Tampa Bay Rays have been using what is commonly known as ‘The Opener’. By that I mean they have been using an individual who is usually a reliever by trade to start the game for them and
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The Thoughts Behind The Pinch Hit
Late on Sunday evening in Chicago, David Bote did something incredibly amazing, I don’t mean that glorious bat flip you see above. He sent Wrigley Field into a frenzy by launching a pinch-hit, walk-off grand slam with two outs in
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The Anatomy of an At Bat
When you are watching sport you inevitably at some point ask yourself ‘What would I have done if it was me?’ or you say ‘They shouldn’t have done that, they should have done this’. To me this comes from hours
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