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Daddy Hacks or: The Lone Peril of Swinging Too Hard
Acceleration influences bat speed, and bat speed affects contact quality. Can there be too much of a good thing?
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Faster Fastballs Produce Worse Swings
Or: using a ton of data to find a result that seems intuitively obvious, for fun and profit.
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Looking into the Heart Zone
Teams are telling their pitchers to trust their stuff and throw it right down the middle. Is the plan working?
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What if the Rockies Only Threw Knuckleballs?
Trying to answer that question uncovered a deeper mystery.
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