Category Archives: Baseball

Baseball: Engaging the audience – Part 2

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Kevin Murnane

You want to attract fans? Help them engage with the game. Continue reading →

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Baseball, wheelhouses, and the effects of technological change on language

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Kevin Murnane

If you watch baseball on TV, you’ve almost certainly heard an announcer describe a pitch as being in the batter’s wheelhouse when the pitch is in the area of the strike zone where the batter has the most success … Continue reading →

Posted in Baseball, Language, Technology | Tagged airplanes, baseball, Bill Rigney, language, Orlando Cepeda, railroads, San Francisco Giants, wheelhouse, word meaning | Leave a comment

Baseball: Engaging the audience – Part 1

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Kevin Murnane

An earlier Info Monkey article suggested that the audience for e-sports is just the audience MLB (and every other major sport) wants to attract. It also argued that tinkering with tiny adjustments to speed up the game isn’t likely to … Continue reading →

Posted in Baseball, Information visualization | Tagged analytics, baseball, baseball analysts, heat map, infield shift, information visualization, TV audience | 1 Comment

Baseball: Speeding up the game is not the answer

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Kevin Murnane

The powers-that-be in major league baseball (MLB) want to speed up the game. Why? Part of the reason is a perception that baseball has an age problem. According to Sports Media Watch approximately half of the TV viewers of the 2013 … Continue reading →

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Negotiating the Strike Zone During a Major League Baseball Game

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Kevin Murnane

Baseball is a game of brilliant and beautiful contrasts. People who don’t understand the game describe it as slow when in fact there is so much going on between one pitch and the next that it takes careful concentration and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baseball, Sport | Tagged baseball, Bryce Harper, Greg Maddux, Jonathan Lucroy, pitch framing, sport, strike zone | 1 Comment

WAR: Wins Above Replacement – What is it Good For?

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Kevin Murnane

“WAR! Huh! Good God. What is it good for? “Absolutely nothing” according to the song by Edwin Starr. Many major league baseball analysts disagree. WAR (Wins Above Replacement) has become one of the most oft-cited statistics among those who take an … Continue reading →

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