what's turned cal raleigh into an offensive juggernaut and second best player by war? 

a quick thread on how raleigh optimized his game around his biggest strengths–power and patience to vault himself into the mvp conversation this year. 

statcast data and baseball savant visualizations to illustrate raleigh's ascension.

The amount of statistics and data that baseball fans and analysts pour through is really incredible 

It seems like baseball is the most data-driven sport but all sports have become more and more data-driven in modern times

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Yeah lots of relatively independent individual actions within the team sport overall

baseball does seem to contain a lot of individual games within the game

100%

I think it’s bc each player is “on an island” in so many ways

At their position, on the mound, at the plate

This interchangeability means that things like chemistry and scheme (so insanely important in football basketball etc) can be controlled for

This plus 163 games and so many pitches seen — robust

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I love it so much and they target me with all of these but it's gotten out of hand. The algo is feeding me ones like this now ^

people love to get nerdsniped by sports stats

Basketball is also out of control. Brian Scalabrine is the first player since Jesus, Wilt and Jordan on a per minute ratio to have at least 50% FG %, 5+ Rebounds, 1.5 Steals and 2 Blocks. 

I mean it's all useless.

underrated part of all this data is that it's publicly shared via mlb. not sure if a lot of professional sports orgs share this much data and on a site that's relatively easy to use.