Archive for the ‘links’ Category
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
The Seattle Mariners' announcers used the term BABIP (Batting Average on Balls in Play) today to describe the role of luck in hitting. I only caught a bit of the broadcast, but I plan on rewatching it using the archived games on mlb.tv and seeing exactly what they said.
By the ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Mariners' closer J.J. Putz is mentioned in Will Carroll's latest Under the Knife column (subscription required) at Baseball Prospectus. Since the article requires a paid subscription (which is worth every penny), I won't talk at length about what he says, but I did want to mention this part of what ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
For our friends up north, I give you The Mockingbird, a site all about the Toronto Blue Jays. Their work with Pitch f/x data is quite interesting (and funny), so I figured I'd plug their site. If my short writeup isn't enough to get you to visit, check out this ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
This is a must read for fans of the green and gold. GM Billy Beane does interviews from time to time with SB Nation's flagship site, Athletics Nation, and this is his first since the rebuilding process over the summer. Blez does a great job and Beane gives us some ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Lots of people have asked me if there's a book they can read to better understand the performance analysis side of baseball. I figured I would post this to the blog:
Baseball Between The Numbers is the best book to pick up and read. The chapters are short and you can ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Chris Neault writes for The Hardball Times and also maintains his own website over at The Disabled List Informer. He recently commented on my voiceover about Max Scherzer, liking what he saw, but adding this clarification:
Where Boddy is incorrect, is that he describes the "decelerator muscles" after release as the ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
It's not often that I say this, so let me get it out of my system: I think Paul Nyman is right. In his latest article on The Hardball Times, he talks about the bow-arch-bow system that is crucial to developing velocity, discusses the role of tempo, glove side action, ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
I'm often asked if I believe in long toss to increase velocity on the pitching mound. Generally, I do not believe that long toss improves the speed of your fastball on the mound, largely due to the principle of specificity. However, in order to throw long distances, you must have ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus wrote this in the BP Unfiltered blog:
...no one that looks at pitching knows what they’re seeing. At best, we can speak in generalities, rules of thumb, and conjecture. Yes, I’ve done it and will do it again, but none of us have the knowledge needed. ...
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