Note: The following is a preview of an article published at Driveline Baseball. Follow the link at the bottom of this page to read the full article. In part one of this breaking ball pitch design series, we introduced a method to calculate expected velocity differentials in breaking balls compared…

Note: The following is a preview of an article published at Driveline Baseball. Follow the link at the bottom of this page to read the full article. With technologies like Rapsodo, TrackMan, and Yakkertech reaching the mainstream in recent years, designing a specific breaking ball for an athlete has never…

Note: This article was originally posted at Simple Sabermetrics. I post articles monthly on the Simple Sabermetrics blog and soon after re-post it here on my Medium account. Simple Sabermetrics has released a myriad of videos and blogs covering tracking technologies that have made their way into baseball over the…

Note: This article was originally posted at Simple Sabermetrics. I post articles monthly on the Simple Sabermetrics blog and soon after re-post it here on my Medium account. Statistics that prefix with the letter “x” have made their way into baseball broadcasts across the country over the last couple years…

Note: This article was originally posted at Simple Sabermetrics. I post articles monthly on the Simple Sabermetrics blog and soon after re-post it here on my Medium account. The ‘shiny’ package in the R programming language is a powerful tool to develop interactive web applications straight from your local RStudio…

Note: This article was originally posted at Simple Sabermetrics. I post articles monthly on the Simple Sabermetrics blog and soon after re-post it here on my Medium account. Within the R programming language is a package called ‘shiny’ that allows users to develop interactive web applications directly from the RStudio…

Note: This article was originally posted at Simple Sabermetrics. I post articles monthly on the Simple Sabermetrics blog and soon after re-post it here on my Medium account. In my last Simple Sabermetrics post, I covered how to manipulate Statcast data using R. The goal of these posts is to…

Note: This article was originally posted at Simple Sabermetrics. I post articles monthly on the Simple Sabermetrics blog and soon after re-post it here on my Medium account. The dplyr package is the backbone of data manipulation in R. …

My previous HawkDashboard article covered the pages for post-action pitchers reports, including Trackman reports for post-game analysis and Rapsodo reports for post-bullpen feedback. Check out that article here, if you haven’t already. In this article I will share the landscape of HawkDashboard’s BlastTrax reports that our hitters receive on a…