Pitching depth – both starting and relieving – is critical for success in the college baseball postseason. As we saw in the recently concluded Gainesville, Florida regional, the Gators’ greater overall pitching depth was a major contributor to why they, and not the Red Raiders, advanced to the super-regionals. Each year, I like to review […]
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Defense, arguably, is the domain of baseball that has experienced the greatest increase in statisticians’ and player-personnel evaluators’ attention in recent decades. As this article from Sports Info Solutions discusses, greater sophistication in assessing MLB players’ defense has helped certain players extend their careers, receive larger contracts, and even get into the Hall of Fame.
One of the big stories of the 2023 Texas Tech baseball season thus far is the home run hitting of sophomore first baseman Gavin Kash, a transfer from the University of Texas. As shown in the following figure, Kash has hit 20 homers through his first 45 games (those in which he has gone yard
Slugging Home Runs and Avoiding Strikeouts: Quantifying Tech’s “Kash Value” Read More »
The 2022 season was an up-and-down one for the Red Raider bullpen. There were some notable struggles, to be sure. On March 12 at Rice, after Tech starter Brandon Birdsell pitched six innings of scoreless, no-hit ball, his successors allowed the Owls to tie the game 2-2. On March 26, the bullpen gave up eight
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Suppose you wanted to evaluate the performance of a starting pitcher in a particular game. Typically, we would ask questions such as: how many runs, hits, and walks did he allow, and how many batters did he strike out? It would be nice though if we could distill the different pitcher outputs in a game
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