80.4 MPH bat speed on that Kristian Campbell home run, which ranks in the 90th percentile. And people say Driveline's methods don't work. This is a guy who's max EV in college was 104, with a damn metal bat. Oh and college was less than two years ago. Crazy player development
I created an R package! In R, getting live data from the MLB Stats API has never been simpler. I made a focus on simple and easy to use column names. I linked the Github repo in the comments
Introducing Deception Runs, a measurement of a pitcher’s ability to force a batter into bad swing decisions. In this article, I go over my methodology, leaderboards for 2024, what it does vs what it doesn’t do, and more. Give it a read!
Unreal catch tonight by Hayden Federico of @OleMissBSB and @harborhawks. With a 5% catch probability and just 3.2 seconds of hang time, he covers 85 feet to make the catch!
