How to Become a Pitching Nerd
Eno, Trevor and DVR discuss their paths into becoming pitching nerds while pulling back to discuss the baseline metrics they care about, and digging into a few of the newer tools and numbers they utilize to analyze pitchers.
Rundown
7:45 What Are the Basic Things You Like to Know About Pitchers?
13:33 Year-to-Year Correlations of Pitching Stats
18:47 DIPS Theory & Other Changes Over Time
29:37 The Rise of Deeper Arsenals
34:58 Looking at Changes in Pitch Mix Over Time
43:34 *Newer* Pitch Details to Consider: Vertical Break
53:12 An Example of Seam-Shifted Wake
58:54 A Few Other Tools From Baseball Savant Pages
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