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Swing comp: Chase DeLauter and Trent Grisham. Both flat, similarly open, similar bat speed, two handed finishes. Nobody likes their swings. Effective enough though?

"Why doesn't he get whiffs if he has good Stuff?" Current models can be opaque in how they get to their conclusions. To combat this, we have developed a process to illustrate how and why a player's pitches are good/bad/neutral, based on our models. (1/8)

By ERA-, this ALWCS features the fourth-worst (Astros) and ninth-worst (White Sox) starting rotations among the 386 playoff teams since free agency began. It's the only time two bottom-ten teams have faced each other.

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

Changeups are supposed to be better against opposite handed hitters. This year, they aren’t. And guess which team has capitalized on a key insight from a statistical model about which changeups should be thrown to same handed hitters? t.co/cciLqIkBQX

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Looked into new miss distance #s. Bigger pitches tougher to command, over the top angles miss target more often, & then there's the Twins.... last in Location+ but near top in miss distance. Exploring pitchers, pitches, & teams through the lens of new Open Command #s www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

A new metric, Open Command, offers more clarity in evaluating control for young pitchers

Open Command offers a clearer understanding of how well pitchers hit their intended targets more quickly than other command metrics.

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