this is both remarkable for MIL and deeply embarrassing for OAK. i know the A's didn't "do business" with them as much as they dropped a $100 bill on the ground and the brewers simply picked it up but if i were another team this would be enough for me to never do business with the brewers ever again
🚨New metric release day from the Statcast factory at Baseball Savant
How much do pitchers miss the bat by? Is the bat over the ball or under? Tied up, or flailing? Is the batter early? Or late?
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i missed that this went live a couple of days ago so hey you can listen to my first podcast appearance in forever in which @blandalytics.pitcherlist.com, @nschwartz.bsky.social, and i discuss IVB, VAA, and various other acronyms. it's so nerdy it could possibly kill you. enjoy
i think if you get a hit against misiorowski it should count as a run
i was totally wrong about miz w/r/t command. it's elite for his velo and wemby-ass body. 15 K's on 73% fastballs in the current game is preposterous
close to the end and don't want to read this or david's other post yet, before i say:
• waugh—gotta hand it to him—maybe the best to ever remember some guys
• amazing how the world he created that is vast and exhilarating comes to feel claustrophobic and nauseating
• fanaticism, addiction, insanity
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this is as much a bump as it is a eulogy: last year i had fun calculating the miss distance that was implied by pitch locations and hitters' bat angles, inspired by @srbrown70.bsky.social and a blue jays pitcher who wholly collapsed after this post and got demoted blogs.fangraphs.com/brendon-litt...