Introduction Before we talk about how to calculate arm angle there’s a question that must be answered: why would someone want to calculate arm angle/arm slot in the first place? The motivation behind this project stems from something that happened in the 2020 ALCS – Astros vs. Rays. The diversity in release points of the […]
Intro I recently bought a subscription to Baseball America this year which includes a draft database of each team’s draft history, how much a player signed for, their school, position, etc. It sounds naive (probably because it is) but after spending several hours sifting through the A’s draft history over the past ten years, I […]
Introduction Matt Chapman is my favorite player, and in the spirit of improving my skills, he will be my next victim in a long string of machine learning endeavors. Since I have yet to put together an ensemble model that I’m satisfied with, my goal is to build one that accurately predicts all of Matt […]
Drafted in the 20th round of the 2019 MLB Amateur Draft by the Oakland A’s out of the University of Michigan, not a lot of people were talking about Jack Weisenburger. To tell you the truth I just recently learned about the guy too. But the buzz has started to pick up and I’ve done […]
Okay, I admit it…I have a little crush on Jakob Junis. I’ve gotten the opportunity to watch him pitch a few times when the Royals have come to the Coliseum; I can’t help but think this guy has the tools for big league success, but for one reason or another he can’t connect the dots. […]