I started this project nine and a half years ago. I’ve gone through multiple outside developers, cleared countless hurdles over an unknowable number of hours, taught myself a ton about coding and modeling, and studied thousands of variables. But finally, six years after the introduction of THE BAT X for hitters, THE BAT X for pitchers is finally here!

Similar to THE BAT X for hitters, the pitcher version starts with the classic version of THE BAT (which was built long before Statcast and all the advanced metrics we have now, and mostly just makes use of surface stats) and blends in my brand new pitcher “stuff” model, which I’m calling THE BATcast. (Get it, because it’s THE BAT using Statcast data?) Read the rest of this entry »