Tag: Baseball analytics
Baseball’s ‘Galileos’: Pioneers of Change Before the Strikeout Craze
Baseball has undergone significant changes over the past two decades, with a focus on maximizing strikeouts becoming an industry-wide obsession. The Missing Bats series in The Athletic delves into the origins of this transformation,...
The Impact of Strikeouts on Baseball’s Missing Bats: Part 1
As a young pitcher, Tyler Glasnow always aimed to strike out every batter he faced. Growing up, he was taught to value soft contact and quick innings, but he realized that his strength lay...