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Not often do we get the chance to witness live experiments mid-season on player performance, but that is pretty much what we have in the MLB sticky stuff crackdown. By intervening on one of the elements that we suspect contributes to pitching performance and keeping the rest constant, MLB has... [Read More]

After another year of baseball, another month of twitter arguments about what “MVP” means, and a great start to the postseason with three game fives, it’s time for the annual MVP prediction. If this is the first of my predictions you’ve seen, you are doing it all wrong! Go back... [Read More]

Last year’s MLB MVP vote didn’t quite test the voting traditions and written rules, but this year might be different. A majority of MVPs in the past have been position players as many people view the Cy Young as the pitcher award and the MVP as more or less a... [Read More]

If you’re a baseball fan, you may have noticed you’ve been watching on average 10-15 minutes more baseball then you were 10 years ago.  Or maybe you are always switching between games like me and never stop to notice. If you’re not a fan, it’s probably why you don’t watch baseball... [Read More]

Baseball season is coming to a close and the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BWAA) will soon unveil their vote for AL and NL MVP. The much-anticipated vote is consistently under the public microscope, and in recent years has drawn criticism for neglecting a clear winner cough Mike Trout cough. One... [Read More]

The contextual revolution (don’t really know if that’s a thing, but it sounds official) emerged in the MLB the past few years, attempting to control for more situational effects than current sabermetric driven baseball stats. These models build upon Bill James’s work, Tom Tango’s all-important linear weights, and similar metrics that account... [Read More]