Baseball Therapy

Baseball Therapy: On the Evolution of the Patient Hitter

Have hitters become too passive, or is there something else going on?

Assigning a value to the coaches behind the arms.

How baseball's latest brawl was emblematic of American culture.

Are we still too accepting of the idea that pitchers have little to no control over balls in play?

Does the hard time Kyle Lohse had finding a job suggest that we should change the draft pick compensation system?

Considering all the pros and cons of a revolutionary way to structure a roster.

An attempt to quantify the effect a good clubhouse guy has on his teammates.

Does separating starters of the same type in the same rotation make sense?

Are sabermetricians too willing to blame their own mistakes on bad luck?

Can managers be conditioned to change their in-game tactics?

Do teams that stick together win together more often than high-turnover teams?

Russell searches for a fact-based alternative to the Verducci Effect.

How one might go about quantifying the heretofore unquantifiable.

The final word on whether the popular theory holds water or is fatally flawed.

If it doesn't make sense to call for pitchouts, why do major-league managers keep doing it?

Veteran players are often perceived to have a positive effect on their younger teammates, but can we see it in the stats?