Posts by: John Asel
May 24, 2021
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
May 19, 2021
by John Asel
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…
Apr 10, 2021
by John Asel
“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,…
Apr 02, 2021
by John Asel
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…
Mar 08, 2021
by John Asel
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…
Feb 15, 2021
by John Asel
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…
Feb 11, 2021
by John Asel
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…
Jan 20, 2021
by John Asel
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…
Dec 30, 2020
by John Asel
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…
Dec 03, 2020
by John Asel
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,…