Here's some code to estimate ball's x/y/z position at intercept point. Note b/c we don't have actual batter x/z location for that swing- just average for that month & number of strikes- there's gonna be discrepancies. gist.github.com/sbrown70/654...

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jonah tong actually sucks. you may want to drop him in all your leagues, especially the ones i'm in with you

18 HR, 24 SB, .289/.356/.445 through 141 games

just remembered i wrote trevor rogers' comment for the baseball prospectus annual. enjoy:

next step is to program bots to listen to the AI podcasts, pad the stats, make a buck, entirely devoid of human interaction

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people dunking on n*te s*lver makes me wonder, again, why anyone in the baseball world still follows him. you are not obligated to. there are so many better uses of your time than spending even one second reading words that he writes

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very fitting that CHC traded javier báez for pete crow-armstrong. he just handed the baton directly off to him. electric tools (on both sides of the ball) with prohibitively bad plate discipline, and sometimes those tools supersede all else, but boy is it difficult to thread the needle in perpetuity

an unusual flex: i have all three of this year's 4-homer guys on one roster

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Something that tons of folks have talked about- and that I found evidence for in my SaberSem stuff- is batters have a hard time detecting movement toward their eyes vs movement perpendicular to their eyes. Thought it would be useful to try to illustrate this:

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adjusted bat swing on the pitch leaderboard controls for velo, location, and count. edgar quero's adjusted bat speed by month: mar/apr: -4.0 (4 mph below average) may: -4.2 jun: -4.3 jul: -2.7 aug: -2.8 in other words, quero's bat speed is up roughly 1.5 mph controlling for context

chandler simpson's ratio of stolen base opportunities per plate appearance is down to 0.43 on the season a month later

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need to get in on this trend of posting savant sliders without a name or any context whatsoever so people reply with guesses or say "who is this." that's where the engagement is at. that's how we do analysis

Unsurprisingly, batter's swings get more accurate the more they see a pitcher. These are observed rather than modeled values, hence the occasional weird values the third time through likely due to sample sizes.

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i miss edwin encarnacion 😔

one of the worst books i ever read has more than 1.2 million reviews on goodreads with an average of 4.1 stars and it makes me so irrationally mad. like, i want very badly to acknowledge that taste is subjective and my taste is not necessarily better than anyone else's, but this book is NOT helping

just want the record to show i was hella in on cristopher sánchez. drafted him everywhere last year and this year, the stuff is stupid good, the additional velo on the sinker should have been illegalized. there's a pitcherlist podcast ep from november, it's my only proof. heap your praise upon me

learning about trades from my friends who are not tuned into prospects is fun because i learned the lone detail that the A's traded mason miller to san diego and immediately thought there's no way san diego could've lost that trade

min. 350 PA over the last two years. also 7th in average EV. .440 xwOBAcon during that time. 2nd in hard-hit rate this year, min. 170 PA. this is a romy gonzalez stan account

so mad that i'm not a MLBer just so i could do fake hug watch

didn't realize it would be randy dobnak of all people to dethrone tarik skubal as staff ace. long live randy dobnak

obviously a lot to unpack with the clase news but i can't get over the fact that both pitchers so far were guardians. i mean this has to be a five-alarm emergency for them

i'm a big-hall guy so i will say: if the last voter left off ichiro but submitted a full 10-vote ballot then honestly that's ok. in fact i'd argue that game theory suggests that the game's very best players will not ever be unanimous, with the understanding that they'll get enough votes elsewhere

they've shackled my wrists to the chair, strapped the belt around my chest, taped the nodes to my temples. they are indoctrinating me now with kpop demon hunters

don't mind me. watching the bluey moving episode sobbing

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the fabled sbemail from whence dolph hauldhagen came

gonna level with you folks. i really thought there'd be more pitchforks about cal raleigh's torpedo bat, both in the home run derby and the regular season. people seem to have just sort of forgotten about it, and it is precisely the thing that would infuriate old-heads, so mostly i'm just fascinated

still seeing fastball IVB (induced vertical break) cited as a raw measurement for mlb draft coverage and while i know there are limitations (although there is truly a ton of data) i really thought we got past that. you HAVE to tell me his arm slot. you have to!! extension helps too but i'm not picky

reggie willits > matt holliday, canonically

i know it's a little bit last-minute but i am withdrawing my name from the 2025 mlb draft. thank you to all the teams who scouted me. excited for this new chapter

I don’t really keep up with these new age stats.

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