Author: Leo Tesler leotesler2026@u.northwestern.edu There are a plethora of statistics available today to help fully explain how productive a batter was across an entire season of play. Stats like wRC+, wOBA, and OPS+ weigh and…
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Authors: Charles Frady, Samuel Gomez, Sandy Tecotzky cdakotafrady@gmail.com, samuelgomez2027@u.northwestern.edu, sandytecotzky2027@u.northwestern.edu Entering the 2023-24 offseason, the Seattle Mariners were in a precarious situation. With an 88-74 record, the Seattle Mariners had finished third in the American…
Author: Alex Devorsetz alexdevorsetz2025@u.northwestern.edu, Weinberg, 2025 There have been few prospects in baseball to be considered as sure a thing as Adley Rutschman. As a junior in high school, he committed to Oregon State after…
Author: Michael Canmann (michaelcanmann2024@u.northwestern.edu) Finding elite pitching is difficult. Even teams contending for the world series often have holes in their pitching staffs. Nonetheless, each of the teams in this article thought they had, at…
Author: Alex Devorsetz (alexdevorsetz2025@u.northwestern.edu) This has been an incredible season of baseball. From Albert Pujols’s resurgence, to the trade of Juan Soto, to Paul Goldschmidt solidifying his Hall of Fame case, 2022 has been a…
Author: Luke Lilienthal (lukelilienthal2024@u.northwestern.edu) A pandemic has crippled the global economy; war rages once again in Europe; the DH is in the national league. These signs of apocalypse arguably hold varying degrees of importance to…
Author: Ben Gutstein (bengustein2024@u.northwestern.edu) A critical aspect of doing deep dives into sports data is being able to use current data to simulate thousands of games accurately at once. This allows you to change aspects…
Author: Mike Pastuovic (michaelpastuovic2023@u.northwestern.edu), Weinberg ’23 Intelligent spending in free agency is crucial for constructing rosters that are built for sustained success. Knowing that championship-caliber teams are rarely built through solely internal player development and…
Author: Mike Pastuovic (michaelpastuovic2023@u.northwestern.edu), Weinberg ’23 You do not have to watch 162 games a year to understand that baseball’s analytics revolution has changed the on-field product pretty dramatically over the 21st century. Baseball is…
Author: Mike Pastuovic (michaelpastuovic2023@u.northwestern.edu), Weinberg ’23 Coors Field is considered the most unique ballpark in Major League Baseball, with respect to its impact on gameplay. The high altitude (and consequently thinner air) in Denver causes…