Dave Bush is a man of mystery

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THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball found this 7/11/2008 on www.brewcrewball.com [flag]
Dave Bush has been dealing recently and after checking up on Rich Harden I wanted to see what Bush might be doing differently in his last few starts.  So I started by making a wear pattern plot for his fastball and saw something stranger than anything else I have seen since I started looking at the PITCHf/x data.  Here is the plot without his start yesterday sadly. via ... [link]

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Daily Patterns in PITCHf/x
Published 7/11/2008 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
... Ooooooh… I like this presentation.  You get to see the pitcher’s fastball speed game by game, along with his range within game (those ranges I believe are the 25th to 75th percentiles… if not, that’d be nice to show), along with this vertical and horizontal movements.  All on one graph.  Very very nice. ...

In the News (7/13)
Published 7/14/2008 by Jared (noreply@blogger.com) at Right Field Bleachers
... - Brew Crew Ball takes a look at the difference between Bush's home and road starts. It appears his fastball has much more movement at home for some reason... ...

the colonel per pitch/fX
Published 7/29/2008 by lboros at Viva El Birdos
... a while ago over at Brew Crew Ball, a poster named dixieflatline presented some pitch/FX charts parsing out the velocity and movement on the pitches of the brewer starters, game by game. here’s a link to one of these posts, re dave bush; there are others if you hunt for them. very cool stuff. it turns out that dixieflatline is none other than josh kalk, creator of ...

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