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Analyzing pre-season favorites based on past production alone

by Anthony Franco The calendar has flipped to February, and the college baseball season will officially get underway later this month. Baseball America, D1 Baseball and the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper have all dropped their initial top 25 lists in the past month, and there’s a consensus in the top tier. Read more…

By Anthony Franco, 4 days5 days ago
Analysis

Finesse vs Power: How to Minimize the Penalty from Third Time Through the Order

By Chris Weikel The penalty for using a pitcher for the third time through the order has been well-documented in recent years, influencing team strategies and redefining the starting pitcher’s role as we know it. The gist of this phenomenon is that pitcher production nosedives from a combination of fatigue Read more…

By cweikel, 6 days5 days ago
Analysis

Starting Pitcher Barrel FIP Gradebook

If you’ve followed my work, you know I am borderline obsessed with barrels and strongly believe in in the predictive forces of Barrel FIP. I have tweeted out starting pitcher barrel stats daily for two seasons now, and from the feedback I have received over that time, I know my Read more…

By Casey Boguslaw, 1 month1 month ago
Analysis

Rise of Analytics in College Baseball

By Chris Weikel Since Bill James released the Baseball Abstract in 1982, the professional baseball world has adopted the study of data into every aspect of the game. College baseball, on the other hand, has been far less receptive. That is now beginning to change. Five small D1 programs are Read more…

By cweikel, 1 month1 month ago
Analysis

Analyzing the Prospects in Last Week’s Jurickson Profar and Yasiel Puig Trades

By Joshua Iversen In the week before Christmas, baseball’s hot stove finally began to heat up. A handful of mid-tier free agents found their 2019 homes and two major trades went down involving significant Major League players. The first was a three-team deal between the Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers and Read more…

By collegiatebaseballscoutingnetwork, 1 month1 month ago
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How New-Age Information and Trends Impact Collegiate Baseball and its Coaching

By Joshua Iversen Baseball is constantly changing and evolving, and its latest form is perhaps its most unique yet. Home runs and strikeouts are way up, while batting average and innings pitched by starting pitchers are down. But how do these MLB-level changes affect the way the game is played Read more…

By collegiatebaseballscoutingnetwork, 2 months2 months ago
Analysis

Addressing Pace of Play, Today

By Steve Mar For a number of years, Major League Baseball has been dealing with a pace-of-play issue. The league has done a number of things to try and combat the slow-moving game including a pitch clock which gives pitchers a set amount of time to deliver their next pitch, Read more…

By collegiatebaseballscoutingnetwork, 2 months2 months ago
Analysis

AJ Pollock Free Agent Analysis; Live from the Winter Meetings

By Anthony Franco The topsy-turvy 2009 MLB draft is nearing its tenth birthday. Next June figures to see its fair share of retrospectives, no small number of which will retell how this generation’s greatest player fell to the back end of the first round. For all the attention on that Read more…

By Anthony Franco, 2 months2 months ago
Analysis

NeuroScouting: The Future of College Baseball?

By Chris Weikel The most critical exchange in any baseball game is the battle between the hitter and pitcher. Happening on average more than 300 times per game, every swing of the bat has the potential to change the fate of a game. Two of the most important — in Read more…

By cweikel, 2 months2 months ago
Analysis

Examining the Value of a Glue Guy

By: Chris Weikel Old school baseball thinking and team building almost always dramatize the necessity of the “Team Captain” in an effort to lead young players, create a clubhouse culture and develop team cohesion. These “Glue Guys” have always been plentiful in baseball, but their actual impact on team success Read more…

By cweikel, 2 months2 months ago

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