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Brewer Pitch Effectiveness, or who should throw what pitches and when
Most of our readers are are familiar with the concept of linear weights for evaluating pitchers and hitters. The basic concept is, say if a batter hits a double or a pitcher gives up a double, there i...
Some Manny Parra Fatigue Trends
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White Sox Early Season Offensive Struggles and Taxes
It was a sign of things to come when Josh Fields hit a triple in the first inning, only to watch Carlos Quentin strike out meekly and have Jim Thome follow suit on just 3 pitches. Or when&n...
A Short Look at Today's Brewer Pitchers
I will not pretend to have procured all of this data by myself, but to feed the opening day baseball fever frenzy I wanted to check out a few things on today's Pitch f/x data. Now that Josh Kalk's too...
Thinking About Joba's Pitch Selection
Matthaggs expressed concern last night that Joba's transition to the rotation is not happening well. Basically, haggs is worried that pitch count does not equal performance, that Joba's reliance upon...
the beauty of low expectations
by far my favorite part of the weekend was watching brian barton leg out that triple on saturday. a veritable whiteyballer --- dude’s feet don’t even touch the ground when he runs. barton ...
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