Archive for Batted Balls

One more entry to Fenway Park’s already substantial catalog of quirks.

Why did two seemingly similar home runs carry so differently?

Updating a particular slice of the record book that doesn’t reflect how the game is played today.

An examination of the potentials of batted-ball platooning.

Getting ground balls is definitely a good thing. But does that make a pitcher who gets tons of them a good pitcher?

Can various stats be combined to give a clearer look at pitcher values?

With the Giants back in the postseason, it’s an appropriate time to examine how a home run comes to land in McCovey Cove.

A spinning baseball does amazing things, as every good pitcher and frustrated hitter knows.

We are facing a troubling decline in offense, but are shifts really the cause?

It’s time to build a better heat map.