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Episode 23: Evaluating Baseball Statistics with Sam Miller of ESPN

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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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