Archive for Spring Training

Five questions:  San Francisco Giants
3/23/2012 -
14

Will the 2012 Giants escape the lousy hitting that doomed them in 2011?

Five questions: St. Louis Cardinals
3/19/2012 -
+

No Pujols, no La Russa, no problem.

Thoughts from spring training
3/16/2012 -
1

Opinions and observations from a trip everyone should experience.

Z-Scores and Pitch IQ Scores
3/8/2012 -
1

I thought it important to describe a new feature we’ve added to the PitchFX Player Cards over the last month or so. I’ve previously tweeted (@Brooksbaseball) about these features but haven’t described them in detail. When the cards first debuted, we were asked by a number of people to provide average data for comparison, especially […]

Andrew Cashner lit-up PITCHf/x in spring opener
3/5/2012 -
+

The radar gun in Peoria may be running a little warm, but Andrew Cashner was throwing gas. The ex-Cub came in for the Padres in the sixth inning. He threw nothing under 101 mph and broke 103 a few times. Even if you deduct a couple mph for what are probably calibration issues with the […]

The Homestead exemption act of 1992
2/9/2012 -
4

How spring training traditions change.