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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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

helping /bracky, playing /bracket reading /greatbooks

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