playing around with modeling location value again, and i am re-convinced elite command is as much or more about limiting waste pitches than maximizing dotted pitches

I’ve left cast iron engine parts at the end of the driveway and the garbage truck has picked it up, why do they draw the line at yard waste in plastic bags

Editor’s note: We’re thrilled to introduce Jesús Cano as our Atlanta Braves beat writer. A native of Pachuca, Mexico, Cano previously covered prospects for Baseball America. This is his first story for The Athletic.

i know they lost, but Sale continuing to do this at 37 is nuts

I need to go to bed but this is too good of a game

got to knock one more off my bucket list of cars I want to see in person today

new aldous harding is good as heck

what's the braves' medium term plan for fuentes?

Quick check on how the Arsenal Metrics are doing partway through the season. These are spearman correlations for qualified starters, and it shows the Arsenal Metrics as expected hold some signal for why certain guys may be outperforming their pitch metrics.

I love this app for situations like this www.fangraphs.com/lab/paired-p...

they took the freaking cutest daycare photos this year

you can't be walking in runs throwing 90% fastballs

when creating or updating a pitching model be sure to carve out time to backtrack and address what to do about knuckleballs after you inevitably forget and have code hard fail

Zach Crizer did a great breakdown of this trend bandwagon.ghost.io/the-three-fa...

Mason Miller (1IP 1H 0R 0BB 3K) struck out the side, picking up his 11th save of the season in the Padres win. His slider was our RP Pitch of the Day

Max Fried's shapes have gotten more neat and tidy over time. I don't not have a metric for this... yet

this weekend we drew some cool dudes, organized cars, and made minor formatting changes to movement plots

😢

Four walks already and gave up a homer on a 93 mph fastball. I know it’s Coors and his first game back but damn

Sale threw 12 changeups tonight. One was a called strike, seven were swung on, and of those swings six were whiffs and one was an easy groundout

Not his Dollandest tonight

no no no no no no ronnie no

Jacob Misiorowski (5.1IP 0H 0R 2BB 8K) was simply not hittable in his 5.1 innings in the Brewers 6-1 win over the Nationals. His cutter was our SP Pitch of the Day

was really hoping I’d be able to say “more like cole losee” but instead it’s “more like cole no decisionn” which isn’t as good

pretty awesome amount of info. should be able to estimate StuffPro and the Arsenal Metrics live

first time being at a game in the 40s. also another time seeing the tigers and not seeing skubal

what do you do while claude's on a long run? look at gauges

Ryan needs to read Baseball Prospectus! www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

ICYMI: yesterday I wrote about Roki Sasaki's new splitter and why it's an intriguing step forward, but also why he's still a long ways off from justifying the hype:

Brandon Woodruff's fastball velo in the first inning today is a huge, 10-alarm red flag baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?dat...

six innings, three walks, seven hard hit balls, and yet only one run. the bryce elder experience

the radio crew just said before his walkoff Olson noticed Ozzie swung over a couple cutters and figured Kenley must not have had his usual vert so he decided to adjust and swing a little under where he thought it was headed

Once again: seems like a good time to go ahead and get your digital hygiene cleaned up www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

wheeeeeeee!

Braves rule this year

this is a dylan lee appreciation post

Sasaki's forkball was a very good pitch by StuffPro, but it was too easily identifiable and he had little control over it. I love how Stephen was able to show this in these charts (hollow circles are accurately identified pitches): www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

I wrote about Roki Sasaki's new splitter, how it fits into his arsenal, how it's both fun and rare to get to see this level of adaptation/development happening in the majors, and why he still is a long way off from living up to the hype. Huge thanks to @srbrown70.bsky.social for his help on this one

fascinating look at what may be ailing luzardo www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

There’s a strong argument for AI being a bubble, but it’s not the argument one person is making. I thought this was a good and thorough piece www.theargumentmag.com/p/ais-bigges...

Read the whole piece, I found this part interesting

good reads on JR and Didier

Chris Sale (6IP 1H 0R 2BB 9K) was down right dominant in the Braves 6-2 win over the Phillies with 15 whiffs. The Sale slider was once again our SP Pitch of the Day.

all of Graceland

One more fork vs split compare, how the split's similarity to the four-seam makes batters less certain in where to swing

On twitter someone pointed out that FG's paired pitches app shows the splitter clips the bottom of the zone when tunneled off the four-seam whereas the fork looked below the zone. Additionally, our Expected Pitch Type plot shows the split much more often looked like the four-seam.

the velo was up and movement different because it was a different pitch. his splitter from last night on the left, his typical forkball on the right

90.6 is a mph faster than his fastest split in MLB, and that was his average tonight. His fastest tonight was 93.6. Really curious what he changed www.brooksbaseball.net/velo.php?pla...

Schwarber triple