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Looking to Refine FIPs with Pitch F/X
FIPs measures 3 factors that totally dependent on the pitcher, strikeouts, walks and home runs. A player's strikeout and base on balls numbers are fairly consistent if a player changes ball parks, bu...
Why it Matters: Umpires, Computers, Wins, and Dollars
Today, I am not very happy. I'm not happy because my team, the Milwaukee Brewers, lost a game to the Chicago Cubs, our hated rivals, on a walk-off walk. I'm not happy, because my te...
Graph of the Day: Aroldis Chapman's Fastball
Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman raised eyebrows around the baseball world this spring. Pitching for the Cuban team in the World Baseball Classic, Chapman flashed an incredible fastball and some na...
Graph of the Day: The Turbulent Career of Rich Hill
via img37.imageshack.us FB/100 from Fangraphs Pitch Type Linear Weights Rich Hill is one of a group of young players let go by Jim Hendry and the Chicago Cubs last winter, along with Felix Pie and Ro...
Pitch f/x Primers
Harry was on the radio earlier tonight and plugged some of the pitch f/x primer articles we're written. Might as well provide some links to them all in one place: Understandings Location & ...
Pitch and Hit F/X Brainstorming Thread
Harry and I were talking a couple weeks ago -- right after his pitch f/x chat, actually -- and one thing we agreed was a great help to furthering analysis, especially new lines of analysis, was group ...
Live Chat With Harry About Pitch F/X: Friday at 1pm EDT
Bumped: Yup, the chat's today. Get pumped and spread the word. Do you want to understand pitch f/x graphs better? Do you want to make your own? Do you want to know how reliable the ...
Slicing The Pitch F/X Leader Boards
Back to some RV100 (average run value compared to average of 100 pitches) leaders, this time by lateral slice. "Fat" pitches are the middle ten inches of the plate, "Out" and "In" are the next 7 inch...
Holland-Day! Celebrate!
Forget the 8-7 loss to the Blue Jays in extra innings. Ranger fans have to be ecstatic after witnessing Derek Holland's major league debut last night. For those of you who don't follow the mino...
Graph of the Day: R.J. Swindle Breaks Pitch F/x
R.J. Swindle, BtB hero, made his Brewer debut last night. I don't know if Harry plans to tackle him in a full-length post or not; I sure hope so. In the meantime here is his slow stuff vs. his horizon...
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