In 2020, nine teams are over an 80 percent success rate on stolen base attempts. Only five teams were over 80 percent in 2019 and if you look at the numbers, they get more inefficient the further you go back. To put his into perspective, in 2017, no one stole bases and there were no…
The modern baseball fan ventures to the world wide web, routes their machine to www.baseballsavant.mlb.com and pulls up an advanced scouting report along with advanced statistics on any player desired. This tool for the common man epitomizes the age of baseball we are in. Every movement, play, and outcome are scrutinized like never before. The…
Hitting a baseball is not easy. In fact, it is one of the hardest tasks to do in all of sports. In this art, you can fail 70 percent of the time and still be considered a quality hitter. Historically speaking, quite a few of these hitters were built upon pulling the baseball and made…
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Analytics is defined as the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is an advanced look into common stats that have been around for decades. Why has the NFL not evolved in the game of statistics? Major League Baseball is at a point of analytical takeover where the game is viewed, evaluated, and played…