Have you ever wondered whether pitchers that work quickly actually get better defensive support behind them? I don’t know the answer to that question yet, but I did find out that the PITCHf/x data this year contains a time stamp of when each pitch was tracked. So I thought, what better to do than find […]

Matthew Carruth (of THT and Lookout Landing) has a look at how often the Mariners have swung at the first pitch. His hypothesis? That the Mariners swung at more first pitches than any other team. The truth? Almost the exact opposite. And that’s why we run the numbers.

College fans can get an overview of this weekend’s regionals at the College Baseball Blog.

He’s been bantered about by some fans of teams who might be looking at the first overall pick in 2009 and if you haven’t been introduced to him yet, Dave Cameron offers an introduction.

David Pinto has a graph up of Chipper Jones’ probability for hitting .400 on the season. He is now at a high point so far at one chance in 1,043 attempts.

Gaslamp Ball gets a visiting contribution from a traveling baseball enthusiast. If you yourself plan on hitting up San Diego in the near future, it might be worth checking this, and the call for suggestions post out.

As we did last year, Kent Bonham and I have made available splits and situational statistics on nearly every college player selected in the first day of the draft. Check out the well-balanced attack that is Pedro Alvarez, or go straight to the list of draftees.

Our win shares are updated through yesterday’s games. Over the past two weeks, Milton Bradley and Johnny Damon added the most WSAB.

David Appelman has an update on Tangotiger’s Great Clutch Project. The fans are winning.

For loyal THT readers, you may remember the “Breaking Down the 2007 Draft” articles written by Carlos Gomez close to a year ago. In the upcoming weeks, I plan on replicating this series for the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft. Of course, there will be a few slight differences. Instead of solely analyzing a player’s […]