There has been some recent discussion around the web about Chien-Ming Wang’s release point this year, particularly as shown in the PITCHf/x data. Matthew Sisson’s original post at Baseball Daily Digest was picked up by Rob Neyer in his ESPN blog and subsequently challenged by Harry Pavlidis at Beyond the Box Score. Matthew noticed that […]

THT Batted Ball Report subscribers have a new report to download, as well as spreadsheets containing the latest batted ball stats and Win Shares. If you’re not a subscriber but would like to be, all you have to do is pre-purchase the 2010 THT Annual.

Retroera SZR now covers the outfield, as well. These are park-adjusted based upon one year of data, unregressed. This is not ideal, of course, but will be addressed (hopefully) in the next update. I calculate the average rating in each park by season, weighting the home team’s performance so that it does not take up […]

Major League News for June 12 Player News Yesterday’s Results Today’s Games Standings Top Minor League Performances You can always find the most recent THT Daily at http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/content/thtdaily/ Player News Player Headlines are courtesy of Rotoworld According to the Lynn Daily Item, Jonathan Papelbon has been fined $1,000 by Major League Baseball for violating pace-of-game […]

As we did in each of the last two years, Kent Bonham and I have posted stats and splits for all of the college players chosen in the first five rounds of the amateur draft. To get you started, check out Stephen Strasburg, Dustin Ackley, or Ashur Tolliver. The complete list is here.

With the release of Sportvision’s HITf/x data for April 2009, we can look at who hit the ball the hardest in April. Since batted ball speed does not decrease much even when the batter hits the ball off center, it is more instructive to look at batted ball speed in the horizontal plane. In other […]

With Texas’s win over Texas Christian last night, the field for Omaha is set. First-round times and matchups have been announced, so we can look at every team’s chances of making it the rest of the way. For background and methodology, you can read the article I published when the 64-team bracket was announced. For […]

There is a discussion at The Book Blog which began with a link Tango made to a post by John Dewan regarding the declining length of David Ortiz’s air balls and has evolved into a discussion of batted ball speeds as measured by HITf/x. It’s worth your time if you’re interested in the new HITf/x […]

There’s a new Batted Ball Report available for THT subscribers. This one uncovers something new about fly ball outs, and also examines a pair of contrasting approaches to preventing runs. You can subscribe to the Batted Ball Report by pre-purchasing the Hardball Time Annual. All previous Batted Ball Reports are available to new subscribers.

Sportvision and MLBAM have announced the Second Annual PITCHf/x Summit to be held in San Francisco on July 11, 2009. The summit last year was an amazing experience, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the physics of baseball or analysis of data from PITCHf/x and HITf/x. You can find more details and […]