Hot Stove: Biomechanics and Workload Scouting December 17, 2018December 17, 2018 Heather Jennifer Wolf, Player Development, Scouting With the Winter Meetings having just wrapped up, the Hot Stove has heated up with huge trades and signings. Already big names are changing cities and signing their names to multi-year deals. Two of the biggest signings so far have been pitchers; Patrick Corbin signed a six-year, $140 million contract with the Washington Nationals and […] Continue reading
A Changing Game Demands Changing Methods December 6, 2018 Heather Article, Research What if I told you the pace of play dilemma or MLB’s attendance decline are two small features of a much larger issue? In order to see what lies beneath the surface of concerns that Major League Baseball currently faces, we must take a deeper look into why the game has changed so drastically over […] Continue reading
Nolan Ryan’s 1974 June 17, 2018June 18, 2018 Heather Article, Research, Will Carroll Thirteen innings. Nineteen strikeouts. Ten walks. Nolan Ryan’s outing on June 14th of 1974 was a stunner, especially given the pitch counts of modern baseball, but even in 1974, it was an extreme outlier. Pitchers simply did not go 200 pitches, even in the “single pitcher” era when complete games were the rule rather than […] Continue reading
Who Broke Shohei Ohtani? June 11, 2018June 14, 2018 Heather Article, Will Carroll The news of Shohei Ohtani’s elbow sprain came as a blow not just to the Los Angeles Angels, but to baseball as a whole. Ohtani is a world wide star who’s two-way success was like nothing in baseball over the past few decades. As always, the question for any pitcher facing an extended period of […] Continue reading