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THT: Ball tracking manifesto and Francisco Liriano
I have two new articles up at the Hardball Times. The first is a short article on THT Live breaking down Francisco Liriano’s April 13 start against the Kansas City Royals. The second is an artic… more →
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THT: Ball tracking manifesto and Francisco Liriano
Mike Fast wrote 4 months ago: I have two new articles up at the Hardball Times. The first is a short article on THT Live breaking … more →
THT: Real-time pitch identification
Mike Fast wrote 4 months ago: I posted a brief evaluation of the MLBAM pitch classification algorithm on the THT Live blog. So fa … more →
THT: Cueto
Mike Fast wrote 4 months ago: I posted a short article at the Hardball Times examining Johnny Cueto’s pitching repertoire fr … more →
MVN: Kelvim Escobar
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Mike Fast wrote 6 months ago: I have published a new article at MVN analzying Kelvim Escobar. … more →
Rotojunkie: James Shields
Mike Fast wrote 7 months ago: I wrote a guest column for Rotojunkie, one of my favorite baseball discussion hangouts, analyzing th … more →
MVN: Johan Santana
Mike Fast wrote 7 months ago: I have a new article at MVN analyzing Johan Santana’s pitches. … more →
MVN: Erik Bedard
Mike Fast wrote 7 months ago: I have a new article at MVN analyzing Erik Bedard’s pitches. If you’re interested in the raw … more →
MVN: Can we classify every pitch?
Mike Fast wrote 8 months ago: I have a new article at MVN on the subject of pitch classification. I recount a history of pitch c … more →
MVN: Joakim Soria
Mike Fast wrote 8 months ago: I have a new article at MVN on Kansas City Royals closer Joakim Soria. If you’re interested in the … more →
MVN: Mariano Rivera
Mike Fast wrote 8 months ago: I have a new article at MVN on Mariano Rivera and his cut fastball. If you’re interested in th … more →
MVN: John Smoltz
Mike Fast wrote 8 months ago: I’m excited to join the sabermetrics blog at MVN. I have a new article there about John Smolt … more →
Appeasement
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Mike Fast wrote 9 months ago: Back in August when I was first getting started with PITCHf/x analysis, I took a quick look at a you … more →
Bend It like Beckett
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Mike Fast wrote 9 months ago: Boston Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett put together an amazing postseason performance this year to help … more →
Going, going, Gagne!
Mike Fast wrote 10 months ago: As the regular season ends and the playoffs approach, I’m looking at a few of the playoff-boun … more →
Simple is good
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Mike Fast wrote 11 months ago: Some of the other PITCHf/x analysts out there are looking at the hitting aspects or other things tha … more →
In the land of submariners
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Mike Fast wrote 11 months ago: So far we’ve classified the pitches for four pretty orthodox pitchers: Joba Chamberlain, Jonat … more →
Mad Dog mishmash
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Mike Fast wrote 11 months ago: Once again, Josh Kalk has some good things brewing on his blog. He’s working on a clustering … more →
How many seams are you holding?
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Mike Fast wrote 11 months ago: I’ve been impressed for a while by the analysis that Steve West does of the Rangers’ pit … more →
Papelbon Redux
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Mike Fast wrote 11 months ago: I’ve tied up some of the loose ends from my first post on Jonathan Papelbon, and I wanted to s … more →
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