Archive for the 'Pitching' Category

The World Baseball Classic offers a chance to look at some new pitchers with PITCHf/x.

Examining home run rates and batting average on fly balls and line drives

Delving deeper into the effect of contact quality (or lack thereof)

A-Rod free for two Thursdays!

Several young pitchers who could play big roles in 2009.

I first heard tell of this back in December, but Saturday’s New York Times updated Lance Niekro’s attempt to come back as a knukleballer just like his old man and his uncle Phil: The Elias Sports Bureau studied 190 father-son combinations in major league history and found that in 143 cases — three out of […]

A look back at the strange career of Rick Sutcliffe.

A method for identifying when a pitcher is injured.

Finishing up where last week left off, the second half of Detroit’s history of good but rarely great starting pitchers.

Further examination of a pitcher’s control of balls in play.