Waste This: An Analysis of Greg Maddux’s 0-2 Pitch Selection

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 Waste This: An Analysis of Greg Maddux’s 0-2 Pitch Selection
Last week we took a look at a bunch of plate appearances between Greg Maddux and Bengie Molina, in an attempt to see if there were any discernable patterns or tendencies on the part of either participant. Realistically, I was jumping the gun in conducting such an analysis; while there is not much to be determined from a small sample size of plate appearances it was definitely an interesting ... [link]

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Published 5/16/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
Linked to a couple articles when I came back on Wednesday, so just a few today …. More Maddux analysis from Eric Seidman — Haven’t really read it yet, but I enjoy Eric’s stuff. By the Numbers – Speaking of Seidman, he has an article in one of the recently posted “By the Numbers.” There’s also more from Victor Wang on the value of prospects, which I’ve linked to in the past. Anatomy of a curveball – Josh Kalk with more PITCHf/x work with cool graphs showing a curve and ...

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