Before last season, we looked at which pitchers threw the most first-pitch breaking balls and offspeed pitches, and which hitters faced the most, in 2013. Who topped those lists change in 2014?
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Category Archives: Pitch Sequencing
More on pitch types and the strike zone
Revisiting a recent article that used PITCHf/x parameters to see if different pitch types are associated with different strike zones.
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Swinging vs. Called First Strikes
Inspired by a reader comment, we investigate whether hitters who swing and miss at the first pitch do better than those who take a called first strike.
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Freddie Freeman does not have baseball’s best eye
Michael Salfino of the Wall Street Journal used balls per called strikes to argue that Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman has the best eye in baseball, but there’s a problem with his metric.
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Pitching (and hitting) backwards in 2013
In this article, I’ll be looking at which pitchers were the most backwards in 2013. I also want to determine which hitters saw the most backwards pitching last season, and how they performed in those at bats.
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