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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Tag: Analytics
The Unofficial MLB Player Championship
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
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
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?
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)
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?
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
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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An Application of Expected Stats
Welcome back Christopher Gauthier Have you ever been at a game and a player smokes a ball right at someone? Like, had that ball been hit a little more to the left or the right of the fielder, it’s a
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Investigating Sophomore Slump
This is Chris Gauthier’s debut article for Bat Flips and Nerds. He’s a college student and a Mets fan. If you’re a dedicated sports fan, chances are at one point or another, you’ve heard the term “sophomore slump,” referring to
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