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How Can Pitchers Expand the Strike Zone? Command the Baseball: Evidence from MLB
Study by: Brad Woodfield NCAA I Pitcher, Lafayette College University of Chicago MBA `18 In a previous post we clustered 2017 MLB starting pitchers into four mutually exclusive groups based on their pitching style. The groups were: Elite Power, Finesse, Fastball, and...
Former MLB LHP Josh Spence Command Journey
Hello, My name is Josh Spence, I was the 29th Australian to play Major League Baseball debuting June 24th, 2011. I crossed paths with Dustin when we were in the San Diego Padres organization together. Now years later It’s awesome to see the stepping stone he is...
Do ‘Command’ Pitchers Get More Called Strikes?
I. Motivation (By Dustin Pease) There exists a broad spectrum of potential skills that a pitcher may have. Depending on which skills a pitcher excels at, he may be classified into one of several types of pitchers. Two overarching buckets of pitchers are Finesse...