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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