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Tag: Analytics

Angels’ Reid Detmers: A No-No built on a Marsh

May 11, 2022 Russell Eassom Baseball

Luck will always be an intrinsic part of sport and especially in the world of baseball. Last night Reid Detmers of the Los Angeles Angels threw a no-hitter, which is a remarkable achievement no matter the circumstances. What was truly

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All doubles are equal, but some are more equal than others

November 8, 2021 Russell Eassom Baseball

There was a lot of furore about a couple of bizarre plays in this postseason, the one which probably drew the most ire and, therefore the most tweets, was the Kevin Kiermaier’s “rule double” off the hip of Hunter Renfroe.

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Yadier Molina is so good, he impacts games he isn’t playing in

April 22, 2021 Russell Eassom Baseball

Yadier Molina recently passed 2,000 games as a catcher which is a phenomenal milestone. He becomes only the sixth player to do this in MLB and was the first to do with just one team. He is a generational talent

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The Unofficial MLB Player Championship

April 8, 2021 Russell Eassom Baseball

There are many ways to determine who is the best player in a sport right now, especially baseball, but most are fraught with debate on which methods and stats are better. There are a few major sports however which generally

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One Metric For Every Giants hitter To Focus On – Outfielders

April 1, 2021 Charlie Baldwin Baseball

In my debut article, I wrote about one key statistic to focus on for Giants infielders. In this column, I will be doing the same for the outfielders. My choice of players is based on who I believe is likely

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One Metric to Focus on For Every SF Giants Hitter – Infield

March 18, 2021 Charlie Baldwin Baseball, Team Contributors

In my debut article for Batflips and Nerds, I thought it would be interesting to see if I could find one key statistic to focus on for every Giants positional player. My choice of players is based on who I

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Wait, Did we just get really lucky?

February 25, 2021 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

To me, one of the amazing things about baseball is that a team can get ten men on-base and, one day they could score zero runs and another day they could score all 10. Also, a team can score 20

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MLB 2020 Playoffs Explained (Hopefully)

September 16, 2020 Russell Eassom Baseball

Baseball in 2020 is weird and MLB in 2020 is even weirder still. We have watched less than two months of MLB games, yet we are already in the crunch moment of the season with most teams having fewer than

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Is Shane Bieber Elite?

July 27, 2020 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

A while back, I was tagged in a Twitter thread talking about the predictive/sticky nature of hard hit balls for pitchers. The reason behind that discussion was the Cleveland pitcher Shane Bieber. Last season, he put up some fantastic numbers

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The rise of the hit by pitch

July 11, 2020 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

With the current trend of thinking in the front offices in MLB, we are seeing many aspects of the game at all-time highs and lows. A lot these are constantly talked about: strikeouts, home runs and lack of stolen bases

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