Pebble Hunting

Pebble Hunting: What the Heck, Tigers?

Making sense of why the Tigers didn't add a big-name arm to their bad bullpen this offseason.

Pebble Hunting: Testing PECOTA’s Memory

Does PECOTA's long memory have a downside?

Pebble Hunting: What It Means To Have The Best Farm System In Baseball, Part Three

Last year it was the Twins. The year before, the Cardinals. This year, probably the Cubs. But what's it worth when your favorite team has the league's best farm system?

Pebble Hunting: The Pitchers Who Changed PECOTA’s Mind

by Sam Miller 1/23

PECOTA likes a few pitchers quite a bit more than it did a year ago. What did those arms do to deserve better projections?

Pebble Hunting: The Hitters Who Changed PECOTA’s Mind

by Sam Miller 1/19

Whose 2014 season, good or bad, had enough of an impact to drastically change how PECOTA views them?

Pebble Hunting: The Gospel According to Baseball

by Sam Miller 1/16

Which Bible verses do baseball players gravitate to the most and why?

Pebble Hunting: Hank Aaron’s Hypothetical Fortune

by Sam Miller 11/21

Hank Aaron would be worth a billion dollars if he were playing today. What would he actually get?

Pebble Hunting: Nelson Cruz is Same, Different

by Sam Miller 11/05

Nelson Cruz wants what he wanted last year, and might get it, and might not.

Pebble Hunting: An Illustrated Guide to the People of AT&T Park

by Sam Miller 10/24

Classifying the fans you'll see in the stands for the next three games of the World Series.

Pebble Hunting: An Illustrated Guide to the People of Kauffman Stadium

by Sam Miller 10/21

Classifying the fans you'll see in the stands for the first two games of the World Series.

Pebble Hunting: The Best Teams Should Make The World Series; A Defense of Bud Selig

by Sam Miller 10/20

The commissioner's lasting legacy isn't randomness and meaningless. It's a more fair world.

Pebble Hunting: The Rich Get Smarter

by Sam Miller 10/15

Andrew Friedman might be the most revered executive in the game--Billy Beane included--and the richest team in baseball just hired him.

Pebble Hunting: The ’80’ Pitches In This Year’s Postseason

by Sam Miller 10/01

What to watch for in this postseason? Things three standard deviations away from the mean, obviously.

Pebble Hunting: The Padres’ Sad Team Leaders

by Sam Miller 9/29

What the back of the Padres' team leader card will tell us about the Padres, baseball, and team leader cards.

Pebble Hunting: Spoiler: Spoiling Spoiled

by Sam Miller 9/24

Do out-of-it-teams play better or worse than you'd expect based on their talent level? Spoiler: You'll have to read the article to find out.

Pebble Hunting: Cueto’s Quirks

by Sam Miller 9/19

Johnny Cueto is a good pitcher. Johnny Cueto is a quirky pitcher. Is there a causal relationship?