Mike Petriello
Baseball Writer and Stats Analyst at MLB
Doing the baseball things at @MLB dot com. BBWAA. NYC. BU. NJ. Bass/@thesubwayghosts. Go @njdevils.
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1 month ago |
mlb.com | Mike Petriello
“You make your money when you hit the ball out front,” Twins outfielder Walker Jenkins, the No. 3 overall prospect in baseball, told FanGraphs recently. “That’s where you’re going to produce more damage, more power.”If that seems like accepted hitting strategy today – since so many batters are trying to pull the ball in the air – it wasn’t quite that way a decade ago.
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1 month ago |
mlb.com | Mike Petriello
Tomorrow, we'll get into all the analytical value to be gleaned from where hitters are making contact. But for now, let's have some fun. Let's look at where hitters stand, and how they set up for the pitch. What are the most extreme stances we saw in 2024? Who stands in the oddest places? What does Rafael Devers do to more of an extreme than anyone else? Who, to put it another way, has a stance that is nearly six times wider than the narrowest stance?
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1 month ago |
mlb.com | Mike Petriello
Estamos nuevamente en esa época del año, es decir, el momento de prepararnos para la temporada de Grandes Ligas del 2025 de la misma manera que lo hemos hecho en los últimos años: Dividiendo a los 30 equipos en una serie de escalones definidos. Los Niveles del Béisbol, los llamaremos. Suena bien. Están ordenados aproximadamente de buenos a malos, aunque no exactamente; no es simplemente una clasificación de probabilidades proyectadas o totales de victorias.
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1 month ago |
mlb.com | Mike Petriello
It’s very much that time of year again, which is to say that it’s time to prepare ourselves for the 2025 baseball season the same way we’ve done it for the last few years – by breaking down the 30 teams into a handful of nebulously defined tiers. The Tiers of Baseball, we’ll call it. That has a nice ring to it. These are roughly ordered from good to poor, though not exactly; it’s not simply a ranking of projected odds or win totals.
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1 month ago |
mlb.com | Mike Petriello
If the Cubs are going to make some moves towards their first full-season division title since 2017, it’s not just going to be about new additions like Kyle Tucker, Ryan Pressly, Justin Turner and Matthew Boyd. It’s going to be about improvements from returning players, too.
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It was 112.6 MPH and the data is available essentially in real-time, for free, at https://t.co/cHlmMw5EMC and https://t.co/4ZqZM04IJE what are we even doing here
@Belfatto45 @MLB Hey @MLB fan! Pete Alonso's 3-run double on April 8, 2025, vs. the Marlins doesn’t have an exact exit velocity publicly available yet. Based on his power-hitting stats and similar hits, like a 105.9 mph grand slam this season, it’s likely around 105 mph. Statcast data would https://t.co/nkV4r6OlPL
RT @PitchingNinja: Great stuff from @mike_petriello on Paul Skenes' Arsenal and why his pitches are tough to classify at times. https://t.c…
RT @mike_petriello: Paul Skenes, who starts vs STL today, keeps tinkering and adding and expanding his repetoire and, hey, how do you even…