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The subtle changes to the baseball this season should offer a slight reprieve to pitchers.

February 5, 2021 I’m going to spend about half this article trying to deceive you. I just thought you should know that upfront. Why? Alex Chamberlain wrote a wonderful article about Kyle Hendricks yesterday, and it reminded me of one of my favorite paradoxical findings about pitching. Now, I’m going to use that finding to bamboozle you — or at least, that’s the plan. Hendricks, you see, is spectacular at throwing pitches in the shadow zone, the boundaries of the strike zone and the area just outside of it. That’s an obviously useful skill. When you watch a pitcher painting the corne...

BCB Interview: Cubs play-by-play announcer Jon ‘Boog’ Sciambi Share this story Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports I had the chance to talk with new Cubs TV play-by-play voice Jon ‘Boog’ Sciambi this week. We talked about topics ranging from his nickname to how he views working advance statistics into broadcasts to the viral video he recorded of a baseball game in New York’s Central Park last month. He’s going to be great, he was a fantastic hire by Marquee Sports Network. Here’s a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. AY: You were nicknamed “Boog” years ago. Do you p...

February 4, 2021 You know it’s almost time for baseball season when all of the major projection systems forecast Kyle Hendricks‘ ERA one run per nine innings too high. As much as this sounds like a knock on those who develop projections, it’s not. What Jared Cross (Steamer), Dan Szymborski (ZiPS), Derek Carty (THE BAT), and the folks at Baseball Prospectus (PECOTA) do is no small feat. If I weren’t too cowardly to even try to create my own projection system, I would be too stupid to design one that is half as effective as theirs. Glass houses and all that.

An in-depth look at how Joc Pederson might hit against lefthanded pitching Share this story Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images I was discussing the Joc Pederson signing with a number of other SB Nation writers and editors and Ivan, a writer/editor at our SB Nation Braves site Talking Chop, offered me a detailed statistical analysis of how Joc might do against lefthanders playing for the Cubs in Wrigley Field. I turn the rest of this post over to Ivan for that analysis, and thank him for this terrific detailed writeup. On Friday, news broke that the Chicago Cubs signed outfielder Joc Pederso...