FanGraphs Audio: Dave Cameron on the Data of Slumps

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May 17, 2016

Episode 653
Dave Cameron is the managing editor of FanGraphs. During this edition of FanGraphs Audio he examines what the data reveal about slumps, injuries, etc — specifically looking at Yordano Ventura‘s fastball velocity and release point, and then Troy Tulowitzki’s contact rate on pitches in the zone and also exit velocity.

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Audio after the jump. (Approximately 45 min play time.)

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verisimilidude
7 years ago

That word for what pigs enjoy doing in the mud: wallow. As a reading of Larry McMurtry’s “Lonsome Dove” would reveal, this word can also be used as a noun to denote the place in which such activity may happen.

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