As leaguewide strikeout rates continue to rise, player churn and playing time allocation are driving the effect. But young pitchers may yet have a secret weapon enabling them to improve their strikeout rate before age catches up with them.
FB%, PX, xPX, HH%, hr/f, HctX: it's an alphabet soup of metrics, and each has been proven to be valuable. But what we really want to do is project future performance. How can we do that?
We "research the research" to uncover five ways that the BaseballHQ.com Research & Analysis team can deliver more value to subscribers in 2015 than ever before.
It's common to think that Tommy John surgery is so routine that pitchers are pretty much guaranteed a return to MLB. We decided to find out about return rates for TJS pitchers.
As leaguewide strikeout rates continue to rise, player churn and playing time allocation are driving the effect. But young pitchers may yet have a secret weapon enabling them to improve their strikeout rate before age catches up with them.
FB%, PX, xPX, HH%, hr/f, HctX: it's an alphabet soup of metrics, and each has been proven to be valuable. But what we really want to do is project future performance. How can we do that?
We "research the research" to uncover five ways that the BaseballHQ.com Research & Analysis team can deliver more value to subscribers in 2015 than ever before.
It's common to think that Tommy John surgery is so routine that pitchers are pretty much guaranteed a return to MLB. We decided to find out about return rates for TJS pitchers.