Short Relief visits the three main stages of life: Childhood, Adulthood and Statcast.
A slugfest at Wrigley Field, Patrick Corbin on fire, Wild Card wildness, and Adam Engel goes very, very far.
Notes on Franklin Barreto, Forrest Whitley, Ronald Acuna, Mitch Keller, Kyle Wright, and more.
On the 24th episode of the DFA podcast, R.J. and guest host Zach Crizer reflect on Jered Weaver’s career and, most importantly, his impact on Jeff Sullivan’s tweets. Then it’s on to the moves of the past few days, including Chris Hatcher’s move to Oakland and the Twins’ gigantic new starting pitcher.
Aaron Nola. If you got him, use him twice.
Mike Trout is better than everyone at everything, even failure.
Because the Astros needed another young star infielder, apparently.
Six years later, still looking for one more chance.
Just be glad we didn’t use a Cease-related pun.
Short Relief closes out its week of admiration with three players with absolutely nothing in common.
This week we talked to Rob Arthur of FiveThirtyEight and Jim Albert, professor of mathematics and statistics at Bowling Green State University about Rob’s article Baseball’s ‘Hot Hand’ Is Real, co-authored by Greg Matthews assistant professor of statistics at Loyola University Chicago