A while back Adam Foster of Project Prospect sent out a tweet wondering how height impacts success and longevity as a pitcher. Adam is focused on minor league baseball prospects and thus was curious how height impacts a pitchers chances of “making it” and how long they last in the major leagues. My first instinct was [...]
My last two posts have been about the average height and average weight of MLB players. While I will be looking at performance relative to height and weight as well, I wanted to make a quick post to show height and weight over time. Have players gotten taller on average since 1960? Do players weigh [...]
Following up on my post from yesterday regarding average height of baseball players, I wanted to look at the average weight. I posed the question through my Twitter account, and heard back with pitcher, catcher, first base, designated hitter, and third base. Again, I looked at all MLB players since 1960 who played at least [...]
I was at a spring training game a few days ago and had an interesting conversation with my dad regarding average height of position players. We guessed that middle infielders (shortstop and second basemen) are the shortest players on the field. Being a numbers guy though I wanted to know for sure. I looked at [...]
In our first post, we showed the percentage of players in Major League Baseball based on birth month. As I showed, there is a much higher percentage of players born in August, largely due to the Little League Baseball cutoff date of July 31. In order for players to reach the majors, they had to [...]
The birth month phenomena is an interesting occurrence that is applicable throughout society. While Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell implied the same was true for baseball, I wanted to take a closer look. Looking at the birth month of every MLB player that has appeared in a game since 1965, the graph suggests that you’re most [...]
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