zach neto is small; he's also hitting lots of homers. the new statcast metrics show how he's doing all that. i wrote about it for FanGraphs Baseball: blogs.fangraphs.com/zach-neto-look…

this week joe ryan threw the flattest pitch anyone's homered on this season. it came off the bat of lawrence butler, who hadn't barreled a high fastball his whole career. i broke down how that happened for FanGraphs Baseball: blogs.fangraphs.com/behold-the-mos…

“There’s an extremely strong relationship between swing-and-miss rate on a changeup for a specific pitcher and how far out in front hitters tend to be.” Michael Rosen shares what makes a changeup effective with Blake Murphy & Julia Kreuz. LIVE 📺 watch.sportsnet.ca

interesting probabilities exercise... oddsmakers have pirates at ~28% chance of win in game 1 and ~57% chance of win in game 2 would moving skenes to g1 change their expected wins? seems like it'd be a marginal difference if any x.com/jjcoop36/statu…

for FanGraphs Baseball, i wrote about the hottest pitcher on the planet blogs.fangraphs.com/how-much-would…

crowdsourcing statcast help: is there any way to calculate whether a batted ball is a barrel in the pitch-level csv's?

on rates and barrels Derek VanRiper asked how riley greene could be so good at barreling the ball while being so bad at squaring it up. i was curious too, so i did my best to find out (for FanGraphs Baseball): blogs.fangraphs.com/riley-greene-i…

gleyber terrorized the mariners so i was compelled to write about it blogs.fangraphs.com/gleyber-torres…

i offered some medium-hot mitch keller takes for FanGraphs Baseball: blogs.fangraphs.com/mitch-keller-i…

i'm on a podcast x.com/RichardStaff/s…

i wrote a eulogy for the end of this era of twins baseball blogs.fangraphs.com/the-twins-blow…

for FanGraphs Baseball, i wrote about ryan bergert doing stuff that nobody else is doing (besides my GOAT lake bachar) blogs.fangraphs.com/in-at-least-on…

statcast crowdsource q: i'm trying to track changes in base state from one plate appearance to the next. (for example, julio rodriguez hits a single, cal raleigh scores from 2nd, julio advances to 2nd base). is there any way to do this besides pulling text from the des field?