Episode 23: Evaluating Baseball Statistics with Sam Miller of ESPN

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English - May 17, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 34.5 MB - ★★★★ - 29 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 21: Baseball is Back

Next Episode: Episode 24: Report of the Committee Studying Home Run Rates in Major League Baseball

Sam Miller joined us to talk about his recent article about evaluating Statcast's new Pop Time metric. Surprising exactly no one, we also talk about Shohei Ohtani, again. And take a look at Robinson Cańo's Hall of Fame candidacy.

'Pop' science: Your guide to learning a new MLB stat by Sam Miller
Usain Bolt playing baseball by Sam Miller
A big step forward in measuring command by Eno Sarris
CMD from Baseball Prospectus
What Makes a Good Change Up? Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 by Harry Pavlidis

Below is a table showing the comparative ratings of some of the pitchers with the best command scores.

Command+
CMD
Name

1
9
Kyle Hendricks

2
19
Jordan Zimmermann

3
21
Alex Wood

4
10
Jeremy Hellickson

5
64
Masahiro Tanaka

6
86
Josh Tomlin *

7
25
Aaron Nola

8
12
Tyler Mahle

9
6
Jacob deGrom

10
3
Zack Greinke

12
4
Corey Kluber

20
2
Marco Gonzales

23
1
Kyle Davies

53
8
Doug Fister

101
5
Marco Estrada

122
7
CC Sabathia

Data pulled a few days apart, 151 total pitchers in COMMAND+ rankings and 130 in CMD
* Tomlin ranked sixth in CMD in 2017

Shohei Ohtani is flexible

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