Posts by: John Asel
This is a video presentation on a project Johnny Asel did for school on the effectiveness of bunts and stolen bases producing more runs
In his abbreviated rookie year, James Karinchak dominated out of the Cleveland Indians’ bullpen. He was a little wild, but striking out 48.6% of batters…
“Hitters don’t hit his fastball.” In his brief outing in the 2015 MLB All-Star Game, that was all the announcers could talk about. The velocity,…
Opening Day is baseball fan’s Christmas. Anything is possible. You get the first glimpse at teams and players not knowing what lies ahead. For at…
In last year’s spring training, Trevor Bauer made headlines by telling the batter what was coming. As is typical in bullpen sessions, he communicated through…
In my last post I walked through an analyst’s perspective of crafting a visual, but never got to talking about how that particular visual could…
At the bottom of Yu Darvish’s baseball savant page is a wavy mess. Distributions of different colors bobbing up and down indicating the speed uncertainty…
I have always loved long toss. As someone who has always struggled with command, the ability to just launch the ball was liberating. As it…
The Padres are maniacs and I absolutely love it. Yu Darvish, Blake Snell, Dinelson Lamet, Chris Paddack… it is like they have gone wild on…
Opening night was quite disappointing as a Nationals fan. Our collection of neighbors sat distanced and outdoors, Soto was out due to a false positive,…