The home team has won approximately 53.5% of all MLB regular season games from 2010-2019. In a normal season, the home team has a small but significant edge over an evenly matched opponent. However, the upcoming 2020 season is far from normal. We know home field advantage exists in baseball, but do we know why? …
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In May, I tweeted that I had a hunch that pitchers had very little (to zero) control over exit velocities against them. This is going to sound stupid, verging on really stupid, but I honestly wonder if pitchers have any control over EV, like, at all and whether or not their allowed batted ball quality …
Statistics are, as the Merriam-Webster dictionary points out, “a collection of quantitative data”. Pure and simple. What is not that simple is how we use this data or how we make sense of it. Fortunately, we live in a time and age where we have at the disposal of our fingertips incredible sources (in quantity …
Yankee fans remember the DJ LeMahieu signing as a confusing move by a team that already had enough infielders and were in the middle of a pursuit of then free-agent Manny Machado. A high average, low everything else hitter coming from Coors Field? His role was originally going to be a versatile defensive player and …
At the beginning of April, I asked this question to my Twitter followers: Given just the video, would you consider this ball hit hard? (poll below) — Connor Kurcon (@ckurcon) April 8, 2020 It’s a pretty simple question, but one without a simple response. The attached poll went roughly as I expected, with 60% of the responders …
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