Spitballing

Spitballing: Why When You Go Matters

Baseball's best basestealers should get proper credit for knowing when crime does and doesn't pay.

Spitballing: The Future is Now

Evaluating each pitcher who appeared in the Futures Game and identifying the most similar current major-league pitchers and pitches with the aid of PITCHf/x.

Spitballing: Checks and Balances

by Jeremy Greenhouse 6/23

Enlisting a new type of analysis to reveal who's winning the eternal battle between batters and pitchers, and why.

Spitballing: Searching for Consistency

by Jeremy Greenhouse 6/09

Jeremy finds out whether the consistency of release points matters on a pitch-by-pitch basis and pinpoints the pitchers who give batters the same look most and least often.

Spitballing: The Classic Second-Guess

by Jeremy Greenhouse 5/26

Your starter goes eight scoreless, and your closer is available. Who pitches the ninth? There's only one right answer.

Spitballing: Undefeated Angel

by Jeremy Greenhouse 4/28

Jered Weaver is off to the best start of any pitcher in baseball, prompting Jeremy to examine how he's doing it and whether we can expect it to continue.

Spitballing: Cracking the Scouting Code

by Jeremy Greenhouse 4/25

The mysterious art of scouting needn't defy analysis, as long as ratings are applied consistently.

Spitballing: Never Tell Me the Odds

by Jeremy Greenhouse 4/14

Reliving some of history's most unusual comebacks through the lens of win expectancy.

Spitballing: Trading Places

by Jeremy Greenhouse 4/07

The Mets' outfield swap of Carlos Beltran and Angel Pagan represents creative roster reshuffling, but such positional swaps are nothing new.

Spitballing: Repeat Business

by Jeremy Greenhouse 3/31

Cracking the Opening Day lineup even once is an honor, but what can we learn from players who repeat in the same roles?

Spitballing: Fourth Time’s the Harm

by Jeremy Greenhouse 3/03

Exploring in-game velocity changes, and determining whether fatigue should inform calls to the bullpen.

Spitballing: Playing with Playing Time

by Jeremy Greenhouse 2/24

Exploring the hazards of projecting playing time with monkeys and machines.

Spitballing: Always in Motion is the Future?

by Jeremy Greenhouse 2/17

What can pitch locations tell us about the likely directions of batted balls?

Spitballing: Welcome to The Show

by Jeremy Greenhouse 2/10

What can we learn from the circumstances surrounding a player's debut?