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 became an everyday habit, my velocity began to climb. Training everything to fire in-sync, full speed certainly aids the body’s ability to do so on the mound, but it may... Continue Reading →
We have long been aware of the fact that baseballs spin when traveling through the air and that Major League Pitchers are able to generate quite a lot of spin when they release their pitches (average spin rate on Major League pitches was around 2270 RPM’s last year). It has been common knowledge for a... Continue Reading →
In 2018, Derek Holland was given a second chance to revive his baseball career. Holland was a former star for the Texas Rangers, helping them clinch two AL Pennants in 2010 and 2011, but he had fallen on hard times. The 2017 season represented a massive struggle for the southpaw. Statistically, he was one of... Continue Reading →
BaseballCloud’s platform is changing the way players and coaches analyze and learn from both practice and game data. BCTips blogs will highlight the functionality of different features of our products and explore the various ways they can be used for player development. If you are a coach or player and have logged into your BCTeam account in... Continue Reading →
The title of this piece is one of my favorite Yogi Berra quotes ever. It is so direct, makes sense in some ways, but then again not really. Lately, I’ve been trying my best to master R. The process has included learning how to scrape data, manipulate data, and create ways to visualize data. I... Continue Reading →
BaseballCloud's platform is changing the way players and coaches analyze and learn from both practice and game data. BCTips blogs will highlight the functionality of different features of our products and explore the various ways they can be used for player development. This is an update that has probably been one of the most (if... Continue Reading →
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 The Show’s franchise mode. How they managed these blockbusters without dealing their top prospects is worth its own conversation, but today I want to discuss the idea of marginal benefit.... Continue Reading →
Stay up-to-date with ABCA news leading up to the 2021 conference!
We have an exciting partnership to announce with P3 and their new development summer league!
One of our former R&D interns, Jonah Simon, has been hired to analyst position for the Detroit Tigers! This week's newsletter also covers some of BallR's key visual features.
Primer This year’s Winter Meetings are about to shine a spotlight on this season’s greatest deficit -- lost revenue. While every club in every market took a hit from diminished television revenues and no fans in the seats, the signing ability of various clubs has never been more challenging. Now more than ever, everyone will... Continue Reading →
One of our former R&D interns, Jonah Simon, has been hired to analyst position for the Detroit Tigers! This week's newsletter also covers some of BallR's key visual features.
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, and to top it off the skies opened up sending us scrambling. It was the first of many losses in 2020. As the last few stragglers left the gathering, I... Continue Reading →
When a pitcher’s fastball has sub-optimal vertical break, some teams refer to the pitch as landing in the “dead zone”. Vertical break and velocity are the two most important indicators of a fastball’s effectiveness, but the former is the subject of this piece. Ideally, a pitcher’s fastball is towards either extreme of the vertical break... Continue Reading →
This week's Inside Pitch covers the SportTechie article that we were featured in over the summer; as well as, a peek at a couple visuals from our custom templates from our soon-to-be-released product, AnalyzR.
Brooks Robinson
Chase Seibold
Eric Sexton
Luke Smailes
John Asel
Kai Franke
Kellen Brown
Matt Mancuso
John Moore
Ryan Holland
Will Stern
Wyatt Kleinberg