MLB The 7 Seconds or Less Suns, Gordie Howe Hat Tricks, and Other Sports Myths That Simply Aren’t True Unsurprisingly, not all of the great sports legends are true. In fact, with the data to back it up, we can prove that some are blatantly false. 4 years ago Andrew Fenichel
MLB Requiem for a King Baseball’s one-time home run king Hank Aaron passed away on Jan. 22, leaving behind a legacy that will live on in the memories of those who played alongside or against… 4 years ago Steve Hirdt, Graham Bell
MLB What Happens When You Combine Discipline, Contact and Slug Into One Metric? By now, every analytical baseball mind knows there are countless statistics like batting average, slugging percentage and RBIs that evaluate performance based on the cumulative result of a player’s at-bats.… 4 years ago The Analyst
MLB How We Measure Which Pitchers Dominate by Generating Swings and Misses Whiff rate doesn't paint an accurate picture when it comes to measuring a pitcher's stuff. Whiff+ accounts for what whiff rate does not. 4 years ago The Analyst
MLB How We Measure Which Batters Do the Most Damage After Making Contact In this installment of a series on advanced baseball metrics, we look at what BIP+ reveals about Miguel Sano’s raw power and how Javier Baez could get back on track. For… 4 years ago Taylor Bechtold
MLB Discipline+: Why Not Every Decision to Swing is Created Equal We’re taking a close look at discipline+ to discover what it tells us about the versatility of Mike Trout, Juan Soto and Ronald Acuna Jr. For a look at which players… 4 years ago The Analyst
MLB Contact+: Which Hitters Are Baseball’s Best at Making Frequent Contact? In this installment of a series on advanced baseball metrics, we look at what contact+ reveals about the greatness of DJ LeMahieu. 4 years ago The Analyst
MLB How We Measure Framing Runs As part of our series on advanced baseball metrics, we examine what framing runs tell us about the game’s best pitch framers behind the plate. Things turned ugly one… 4 years ago Taylor Bechtold
MLB Measuring MLB’s Best at Racking Up Both Swings and Misses and Called Strikes While whiff+ offers a more thorough analysis of a pitcher’s stuff by determining the rate at which he generates swings and misses, strike+ takes that concept a step further. Ultimately, the goal… 4 years ago The Analyst
