new market inefficiency: converting quarterbacks into pitchers. supination bias = great breaking balls. welcome back kyler murray, you're a pitcher now
new market inefficiency: converting quarterbacks into pitchers. supination bias = great breaking balls. welcome back kyler murray, you're a pitcher now
just wrote the nationals blurb for positional power rankings this morning... guess it's back to the drawing board
got to see rinky up close on stadium 5 saturday, looked unreal, the tour is so deep when a guy like this is outside the top 100
new fangraphs contributor (@swingsandtakes.com) just dropped
so does carlos estevez just sit 90 now
hiraldo hive ๐๐๐
mb he's talking about this one?
i think they might've been mistagged curveballs
this is a little clearer
www.cincinnati.com/story/sports...
so he already got the MRI? or he's saying all of this before the MRI? idgi
๐ ryan sloan may soon be the top pitching prospect in baseball
๐ฉ his main competition is probably going to be brody hopkins
inching closer to the day when a pitching prospect weighs the strengths and benefits of each respective public stuff model
really fun one from @davidlaurila.bsky.social
that's awesome to hear, ty
all respect to ben who is amazing but i must let you know that was my article lol
ok last one: tristan garnett is throwing screwballs from a 7.4 foot release height
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another one: yaramil hiraldo, who ran a 40% swinging strike rate on his changeup last year. 40%!!!
for example: nate garkow, who is throwing changeups with 20 inches of iVB
there is so much baseball happening these days โ who will find all the weird pitching stuff? it's me. i will find the weird pitching stuff for @fangraphs.com:
no swing data this spring : (
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not only are the shapes excellent, the delivery is so smooth and controlled, the 4.5% walk rate last year doesn't look like a fluke
oh my god ryan sloan looks ridiculous
cutter shape today is back to what it looked in 2024. there may have been some calibration issues in the first start
thank you!!
hiraldo propaganda coming soon to a blog post near you
hell yeah
yaramil hiraldo
it's just a pretty rare (maybe unprecedented) combo of K% and GB%