Jeremy Hellickson
9 posts
June Swoons and Stars or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love BABiP and K/BB Rates
It's June 1st, and that can mean many things. for one: regression. Below are a couple of arrangements of players, as squads, whose April/May performances stand out from the norm. Potential June Swoons C: Carlos Ruiz ,…
Change of Pace
We did this a few times last year, and it seems to have fairly decent predictive qualities for future success. We are looking at which pitchers have the largest discrepancy between their fastball and change-up average…
Let's Not Blame the Umpire Too Soon
Buster Olney, sent off a tweet a earlier today saying: "Gerry Davis is the home plate umpire. In his career, Sabathia is 6-0 with a 2.19 ERA when Davis is the home plate ump." Well, that is interesting and all, but what…
Change of Pace Update
About 12 weeks ago, the day after the Wedding of the Year, we did this study to see which pitchers have the largest difference in average velocity between their fastball and change-up. Today, we are increasing the…
Inaugural Post on Rotoprofessor
Hey folks, so we've never done this before... The Braves are reloading, and Freddie Freeman is a big part of it. I wrote a fantasy article, for Rotoprofessor.com, taking an in depth look at the projected 2011 Major…
Britney Spears & 2010 Pitching Debuts
Remember last year, when we wrote this piece called Power Arms of the Future ? We wanted to celebrate how impressed we were with performances from young pitchers like Mat Latos, Tommy Hanson, and Neftali Feliz. The next…
Our 2010 Celebration of SP/RP's
We say "Don't Pay for Saves". Let other suckers waste perfectly good mid round draft picks on closers coming off good seasons. Even if you get the best closer, you could have gotten someone almost as useful much later…
Happy Aroldis Chapman Day
Since this past weekend, I started a post that is currently approaching 8,000 words. I'm not quite sure what to do about it because it takes a rare breed to want to read that much about what I was thinking on Friday…
2010 MLB Predictions
This post was started on March 29th, on a Path train to Hoboken, and a NJ Transit train from Hoboken to Millburn. It was continued on a Metro North train roundtrip between Grand Central and North White Plains. My thumbs…
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