The 2012 season was memorable for closers and their owners. Not so much for their successes, but for performance meltdowns and season-ending injuries that threw the category into disarray.
Jered Weaver is a "flyball pitcher," but gets unusually high numbers of pop-ups and cans o' corn. We investigate whether inducing easy flies and other pithcer-positive outcomes are repeatable skills.
The 2012 season was memorable for closers and their owners. Not so much for their successes, but for performance meltdowns and season-ending injuries that threw the category into disarray.
Jered Weaver is a "flyball pitcher," but gets unusually high numbers of pop-ups and cans o' corn. We investigate whether inducing easy flies and other pithcer-positive outcomes are repeatable skills.