The Pastime

From the AP:
The commissioner’s office is telling teams for the first time that balls must be stored at a uniform temperature after they are delivered from the manufacturer.
“The specifications that Rawlings recommends are a 70 degree temperature and 50 percent humidity,” baseball senior vice president Joe Garagiola Jr. said Friday.
“We have contacted all 30 of […]

[No, not the kind that you’ll see the cheerleaders do in Memorial Stadium, but split stats for collegiate baseball.]
Jeff Sackmann has done it again, just when I was least expecting it. Sackmann, the ubiquitous statistical benefactor/author that he is, has launched College Splits, a website in the mold of his Minor League Splits. While […]

You know it’s a slow news week for the A’s when there’s not one, not two, but three posts about Shannon Stewart on Catfish Stew. To avoid further glut, I’ll post this little bit of statistical flotsam here.
Over his career, Shannon Stewart has had a lot of success against the AL West. If you look […]

If you missed it over at Catfish Stew, I’ve been developing a pitch-by-pitch chart. My goal is to have a graphic that can convey, at a glance, information about each pitch over the course of a game. Click the images to open them to a readable size. There’s explanation of what the numbers and symbols […]