Image courtesy of Mississippi State Athletics Introduction Will Bednar was selected by the San Francisco Giants with the 14th overall selection in the 2021 Major League Baseball Rule 4 Draft on Sunday, July 11th. Bednar, the brother of the Pittsburgh Pirates David Bednar, saw his draft stock rise significantly following his dominant performance during the... Continue Reading →
Gators in Cleveland: Comparing Pitchers through Euclidean Distance
In the recent MLB draft, Cleveland drafted three pitchers from the University of Florida. These Gators are; Tommy Mace (69th), Jack Leftwich (216th), and Franco Aleman (306th). Here is the data for each of their pitches: After reading Rylan Domingues’ most recent article: Mathematically Discovering Jack Leiter’s MLB Pitch Comps, I reached out to learn... Continue Reading →
USF: A Baseball Program Doubted, Dismissed, and Disrespected
Preface & Pre-Season Predictions The University of South Florida Baseball program is one that has been overlooked this season and in the recent past. The Bulls had previously reached NCAA Regionals three times between 2015 and 2018 after not appearing since 2002. This is a huge accomplishment by a program that was never truly appreciated... Continue Reading →
A Simple Way To Improve The NCAA Selection Process
Conference Tournament Structure Conference tournament week in college baseball offers plenty of excitement. Leagues have different formats (some conferences, such as the Pac-12, don't have a tournament at all), but the general concept remains the same. A group of teams in each league–often excluding a few at the bottom of the standings–play one another in... Continue Reading →
Projecting The Field of 64 With Analytics
Using analytics is far more complicated when trying to build predictive models for players. But for schools, it’s far less so. Albeit harder this year than most due to two conferences only playing themselves, and another basically cancelling the season; there are still historically-based and far less volatile metrics (like ELO) available to rank teams.... Continue Reading →
BCTips: Welcome to the New BCTeam
We are excited to announce the launch of our new BaseballCloud platform! It has been months in the making and has taken hundreds of hours of testing to make sure everything runs smoothly as we migrate over all of our teams' accounts, and onboard new teams. BC users will now be able to access all... Continue Reading →
D1 Rerun April 9-11
The weather is warming up and that means the ball is starting to fly and fans are packing stadiums as we are in the midst of conference play for Division 1 baseball. The D1 Rerun is here to recap all the madness that occurred over the weekend! The Hokies brought their bats to Winston-Salem this... Continue Reading →
The Improved Pitch That Spurred A Breakout Season
Over the past three full seasons, the Pac-12 has been defined by a dominant team. 2017 Oregon State and 2019 UCLA were among the best regular-season groups of the past decade. The standings were a little more jumbled in 2018, but Oregon State always looked like a potential juggernaut that year, and the Beavers had... Continue Reading →
D1 Rerun April 1-4
We had MLB and college baseball on Thursday last week due to Easter weekend, so we have a lot to to get caught up on. Let's hop right in! Mississippi State bounced back from getting swept last weekend with a sweep of their own over Kentucky. These four straight Curveballs from Christian MacLeod are just... Continue Reading →
D1 Rerun March 26-28
It was a weekend of sweeps in the SEC as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, and Arkansas all take 3 games from their conference opponents. That doesn't mean there wasn't drama though because it was a wild weekend in Knoxville, and the D1 Rerun is here to cover it all! Evan Russell brought the thunder for... Continue Reading →
Video Game Numbers in College Baseball
120 strikeouts in only 60 1/3 innings pitched while allowing just 4 runs and 21 hits!!! No this is not my created player on MLB the Show, this is the combined stat line for 5 Division 1 College Pitchers. Landon Sims, Carson Palmquist, Joseph Menefee, McCade Brown, and Tanner Riley have begun the 2021 college... Continue Reading →
College Baseball Early-Season Notables
We're through the first month of the Division I college baseball season. Slow starters still have the opportunity to right the ship, while those outperforming expectations have to prove they can sustain that production long-term. Nothing is yet set in stone. Still, we now have a few weeks of data to supplement our preseason expectations;... Continue Reading →
D1 Rerun March 12-14
It was a wild weekend of college baseball and the D1 Rerun is here to help sum it all up. Let's go! This was the most entertaining series of the weekend as LSU gets the sweep of UTSA, but it did not come easily, it took a couple of wild extra inning comebacks to get... Continue Reading →
The ACC’s Under-The-Radar Ace
There haven't been many college pitchers more productive than Mitch Myers in the season's early going. The University of Pittsburgh's Friday night starter, Myers, has struck out 26 hitters with just four walks over his first three starts. Combined with his strong work before the 2020 season shut down, the junior right-hander has tossed 40... Continue Reading →
Final Pitches 344 Days into the Past
Division 1 Baseball finally started up again after almost a year break, with the last game being on March 12, 2020. This post will show the last pitch thrown over some of the D1 Conferences. The 4 main Conferences that BaseballCloud has pitch data from last year were: The ACC, Pac-12, SEC, and Sunbelt. I... Continue Reading →