ARSENAL REPORT: Curbing the long ball

This week in the Arsenal Report, we will look at two pitchers with big arms that have reduced their HR allowed so far in 2021. HR allowed are interesting to think about from a pitching perspective because a prevailing early sabermetric thought was that pitchers had little control over their HR/FB ratios, leading to the popularity of metrics such as xFIP that normalize HR/FB ratios in their ERA estimations. As public research has progressed, especially with the introduction of publicly available Statcast data, we now have better ways of determining how much responsibility each individual pitcher has for the HR they are allowing or suppressing.

Rogers figures out RHB

When Trevor Rogers (LHP, MIA) came up for the Marlins in 2020, he looked...

Almost!

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