MINORS RESEARCH: Evaluating barrel control with a metrics-only approach
Apr 10 2020
Photo: Nolan Gorman (3B, STL)
In all likelihood the minor league baseball schedule will be contracted significantly in 2020, up to and including changes to the amateur draft itself, and that will make for an interesting next few months with respect to evaluating prospects throughout the minors. Just as some of us were getting used to the work-fields-sleep lifestyle this spring, the season is now in jeopardy due to the COVID-19 pandemic, of which you are surely aware. As such, scouts and fans and fantasy owners are more or less asking the same question: What do we do? To that, we respond: Let's look at some stats!
One thing we've been interested in looking at recently involves barrel control. What it is, how we can best define it, and...
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