Time series analysis

Marucci. These two bats are very well used and that's because they are the best bats put together. Let's start with Demarini. Demarini has been in this great game of baseball for over 60 years and still makes bats to this day. Demarini, at one point in time, was a very famous bat to have and if you had a Demarini at any point, then you were known as the cool kid of baseball for having the cool bat. Demarini came out with being a 3 piece bat, just saying that the bat was made in 3 pieces and was…

Gossage and launched it into the right field seats, presumably giving the Royals a 5-4 lead. Billy Martin was on his way from the dugout before Brett crossed home plate and cited an obscure rule on the excessive use of pine tar on Brett’s Bat. At the time, Major League rules stated that the bat could not be covered with any substance more than 18 inches from the tip of the handle.…

Throughout The Natural, Bernard Malamud shows that Roy Hobbs is the utmost ambitious individual by portraying him as a poor man with one goal; make it to Major League Baseball. A question quickly becomes prominent throughout the first few chapters, we see Roy Hobbs struggle in the journey to the Majors, but he finally makes it and we ask ourselves, “Is Roy Hobbs a hero?” In this abstract, I will present to you multiple moments and scenes throughout Roy Hobbs’ journey into, and through, the major…

wOBA is considered one of the best stats to quantify batting performance. But what is most likely to contribute to wOBA? Is it more important to have a strong BB/K rate or to produce on balls thrown in the strike zone that are put into play? Is production when hitting fly balls more important than hitting ground balls and if so by how much? In order to determine this, I used 2013-2015 data from ESPN Stats and Information and Pitch FX to see what correlates best with overall wOBA. The first test…

holder. After McGwire and Sosa were in the running for the record, which ended in a victory for McGwire, Barry Bonds broke McGwire’s 3 year record of 70 runs with a current record of 73 home runs in a single season. Breaking the home run record takes time, energy, and endless amounts of practice. Even though Mark McGwire does not currently hold the home run record, he will still forever go down in the baseball hall of fame for being one of the most hard working and determined players in the…

Award, Walker left the Mets on a high note in 1975. Walker claimed a pitching coach position for the Atlanta Braves bringing them to win the Western Division title in 1982. However, the Braves lost to St. Louis in the National League Championship Series. Consequently, ending Walker’s nearly 40 years in uniform he was discarded. However, Walker didn’t end his career there. He completed his career by scouting for the Braves and the Cardinals. Devastating news struck Walker after completing his…

The novels are so good that readers cannot wait for the next book in the series to come out so they can read them with their parents or kids (whichever the case may be). The novels serve as great material for reading and even bonding with. Some readers did not like the novel for the way that Abbott takes from other kids books…

walk-off was applied pretty much strictly to home runs, it soon came to be applied to game-ending singles and doubles as well. The first time The New York Times used the term appears to be in 1999, and it did not start regularly appearing in a non-home-run capacity until 2007 or so. In 1951, Bobby Thomson hit the Shot Heard Round the World to beat the Dodgers. In 10 Times articles about the game, the famed clout was described as “the unbelievable finish of the most fantastic pennant race in…

Baseball is in my blood. Like the light hair and eyes I inherited from my father, and the hot Italian temper I got from my mother, through my veins a love of baseball runs. Until recently, where my passion for the sport came from I was not sure. Sometime, I thought it began long ago, on summer trips to Fenway Park, when my family would drive in our oversized Chevy to Boston, park in a garage near Government Center, and take the T out to the ballpark. As I grew older and more accustomed to our…

After watching Moneyball and reading the articles, I think that statistical analysis hinders the fun of sports. I feel that sports are not always about the statistics; I feel it is about the players. Because you could be the worst batter but then be the best fielder on your team. I feel numbers are just numbers they change all the time so I personally don’t think you can see how good an athlete is by statistics. Just like one of the guys said at the end of the movie that hit home and took the…