Ventura's Stolen Bases
As encheff pointed out this concept has been studied in many ways. However is essentially the identification of a tight curveball vs a loopy one. Total movement is misleading.
The Mets situation is why we stockpiled resources into pitchers. They're just so volatile.
They're good enough to be legit, deep-run playoff contenders with their pitching. But they're also one or two key injuries away from being 10 games under .500.
Lol you could not be more clueless. A pitcher imparts velocity and spin on a particular axis the moment the ball leaves his hand. After that point all balls are effected by external forces exactly the same. There is nothing to analyze. If you’re still referencing the “late break” fallacy, I suggest reading Nathan’s work.
I’m confident nsacpi will not be forwarding any of your thoughts to this kid, so your ignorance is harmless.
Last edited by Enscheff; 03-23-2018 at 11:38 AM.
preliminary finding: one of the pitchers has a very good pitch that he does not use much
could be related to injury history
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
what about the meta question: what can we say about how things will unfold next off-season given the very weird off-season we just saw. Anyone?
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
But as weird as the off-season was, outside of Moustakas signing for below market value, Holland not signing yet, and Lynn getting only a one-year deal, everyone else in the top tier of guys pretty much got paid. I was surprised that Cobb got a contract for as much and as long as it turned out to be.
jpx7 (03-25-2018)
I agree on Walker to some extent. I don't know if it's analytics or not, but I think of guys like Walker and John Jay in kind of the same category; guys in their early-30s who are support-level players. I think these guys are worth more to contenders than to also-rans, but the Yankees are contenders so that line of reasoning doesn't work on the Walker deal.
jpx7 (03-25-2018)
Probably depends how this year goes.
But would try to extend DeGrom and Thor, if Mets had bunch of injuries again and fizzled around .500, i'd look to trade one or both and blow it up.
jpx7 (03-25-2018)
I thought there was a lot of value in the 2-3 WAR outfielder market