Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 10hMy streaming box buffers about 1 minute behind, so I was waiting with bated breath as to what Mike was talking about here.... Bryce (Took me many months to realize my box buffers, which was made obvious during New Years countdown, as we heard loud sounds in our neighborhood, while counter was 58) 240
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 29/09/2026What a FANTASTIC clip to make this point: This is ... (almost definitely) ONE constant swing plane ... (very probably) SIX different attack angles ONLY way for any pair of those balls to have same attack angle is if each ball "passes through" (exactly) the next ball.Which is practically impossible 152
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 29/09/2026Blog Post: Comparing Statcast Fielding Run Value (FRV) to DRS tangotiger.com/index.php/si... 083
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 27/09/2026MLB MVP is PCA, hands-down The AL MVP has reasonable arguments for BWJ, Yordan or Cam and unreasonable for a few others The NL #2 has a plethora of options www.fangraphs.com/leaders/war 130
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 27/09/2026Max Scherzer Pitch Speed By Season, Speed Bins Group: 5 - 10% fastest that season 4 - Next 20% fastest 1 - 10% slowest 2 - Next 20% slowest 3 - Middle 40% Two takeaways A. Compression between fastest/slowest in-season starting in 2016 B. Compression driven by high-end speed 010
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 26/09/2026Cy Young Predictor - 2026 tangotiger.com/index.php/si... Thank you to @fangraphs.com for the tracker: www.fangraphs.com/projections/... 040
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 23/09/2026Poll Results of the Straight Arrow readers If you want to know how your opinion stacks up... 100 points for Love it 66.7 for Like it 33.3 for Whatever 0 for No Likey Pitch Timer and ABS Challenge are OVERWHELMINGLY favourable The Infield restrictions are right in the middle 030
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 23/09/2026The extra inning runner is the ONLY rule with opposition. That's true of every overtime rule that is used in regular season and not playoffs in any sport Otherwise, all the new rules were overwhelmingly positively received by the fans 000
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 23/09/2026Old ballplayers lament new rules? If there's anyone that does NOT have the pulse of the baseball nation it's old ballplayers C'mon, if you want me to run a poll over on Twitter, we'll get at least 80% if not 90%+ in favour of no-pitchers-batting 100
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 23/09/2026Who is griping exactly? Do you mean like 5% of people who gripe about anything? 100
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 22/09/2026Don't forget how the world would end because we put a timer in baseball And how the no-pitch IBB will rob us of.... something or other And no pitchers hitting means no Bartolo or Felix or Rick Camp moment, once every 10 years 200
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 22/09/2026Height v Stance is an ENORMOUS change Given that there is no definition of a swing to begin with, there's no "change"! 110
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 22/09/2026That's not actually unwritten either. The gray area is between front-of-plate (10% swing rate) and foul line (90% swing rate) At about 20 degrees is the 50/50 swing rate call Folks are just making up the defacto / unwritten rule based on whatever the TV producer is showing 030
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 22/09/2026Checked swings has NEVER been defined in 150 years of baseball Strike zone HAS been defined as stance-based for 140 years, changed to height: no one says boo If/when Checked Swings are defined at MLB level, the "controversy" will last an entire off-season, plus one week of play 3171
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 19/09/2026If there is a smarter batter than Juan Soto, he is either already dead or yet to be born... 1160
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 18/09/2026On full counts, batters have 40 pitches outside strikezone and 42 inside Since a walk has wOBA value of 0.7 and strikeout is 0.0, then taking all 82 pitches would result in wOBA of 40*.7 / (40 + 42) = .341 League-wide wOBA on full counts is .376 Getting Miz at .341 is success 080
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 04/09/2026www.baseball-almanac.com/rulechng.shtmlbaseball-almanac.com 100
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 04/09/2026Not sure I follow... are you asking about the 90 feet? Or the 45 foot runner's lane? 100
Reposted by Tangotigerbiz-malarkey.bsky.social @biz-malarkey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This one? youtu.be/ommqWVcXobw?...youtu.be2011/04/04 Wilson's amazing double playYouTube video by MLBGlobal11 111
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 04/09/2026That's the one! If I remember right, it may have been his first game having ever played 2B! (And if it was not, I'll choose to believe it anyway) 200
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 03/09/2026The greatest fielding play by Pirates SS Jack Wilson was a DP by Mariners 2B Jack Wilson If you know what I mean, you obviously agree If you don't, then go find it 151
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 03/09/2026Solution to issue of teams using #EBUP (emergency backup pitchers): Every fan in attendance gets 20$ voucher, or 25% of face value ticket price, whichever is higher, paid by the Pitcher In NHL, #EBUG use requires fans in attendance to PAY extra 1$ each: it goes to the goalie 030
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 02/09/2026Top Playoff Goalies, Stanley Cup Final, since 1956 www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin... 120
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 02/09/2026Most points in Stanley Cup Final, career www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin... Source: @hockey-reference.com 020
Reposted by TangotigerMark Sheldon @msheldon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026#reds learned today that Eugenio Suarez passed his U.S. citizenship exams. 421737
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 31/08/2026Blog Post: Probably-Right Valuation for ABS Challenge Skill: Is JT the best, or worst, in the league? This is a super-long article, so give it a try and let me know what you think... tangotiger.com/index.php/si... 131
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 31/08/2026In terms of standings, the games that are most important are those that involve your direct competitor in the standings, since a W for you is an L for them Otherwise, it's just bullsh!t fans say, on top of all the other bullsh!t fans say. We don't need to respond to all the bullsh!t 010
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 30/08/2026I should add my entire career would not have developed as it did Consider that MLBAM had its initial scoring system modelled on the Retro/DiamondWare scoring system. Without that, it delays MLBAM event files by a few years, as well as my book and WAR by a decade. Thousands of my peers are affected 060
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 30/08/2026Blog Post: Primer on Positional Adjustments tangotiger.com/index.php/si... 0173
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 27/08/2026This is a terrific read for those who are baseball historians and the monumental effort it took to find and digitize scoresheets. Without this work, @fangraphs.com and @baseball-reference.com would be severely lacking in data www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...amazon.comHow Retrosheet Saved Baseball History: Wigley, Jay: 9798252055732: Amazon.com: BooksHow Retrosheet Saved Baseball History [Wigley, Jay] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History 1144
Reposted by TangotigerMike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Ironically, JJ Wetherholt & Sal Stewart have exactly the same wOBA with runners on, .348. JJ better OBP, Sal better SLG. Stewart has 74 more PA with runners on. But he drives in a runner once every 3 PA w/ runners on, and for JJ it's once every 5. It's both things. 2122
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 20/08/2026Next iteration will untangle all this. Right now, I'm treating these as independent 010
Reposted by TangotigerMike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 19/08/2026🚨New metric drop over at the Statcast factory, Baseball Savant This is one people have been asking about for while: which 1B are best at receiving throws? Yes, "scoops," but a lot more than that. Scoops are 2% throws to 1B. It's about all of them. baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...baseballsavant.mlb.comStatcast First Base Receiving LeaderboardBaseball Savant 44013
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 18/08/2026I think the intent of the rule is that we dont care about the intent of the batter Its simply an objective definition that the batter is aware of, so he knows how aggressive he can be and when he can stop his swing in time 110
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 18/08/2026Yes, obviously you IBB the best batter on the opposing team when that run is irrelevant to the game 110
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 18/08/2026Checked swings has NEVER been defined in 150 years of baseball Strike zone HAS been defined as stance-based for 140 years, changed to height: no one says boo If/when Checked Swings are defined at MLB level, the "controversy" will last an entire off-season, plus one week of play 1221
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 18/08/2026You need to specify if it was bottom/top. I presume it's bottom, since I saw a tweet with a fight in the stands with Cubs jerseys And then I need the score. Was it tied, and so the IBB makes that run irrelevant? 110
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 10/08/2026Did you not watch When Harry Met Sally? Fun Fact: check out the book he was reading... 030
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 10/08/2026Goose Gossage is the last HOF pitcher to have played with 9 teams Rickey Henderson the last player Kimbrel has a shot at the HOF with 12 teams www.fangraphs.com/leaders/majo... 181
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 07/08/2026Most games in the warm summer months... average of 4 degrees F higher in 2020 than other seasons... that's huge 120
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 07/08/2026Excluding Coors (and bunts): - Average distance of 10% longest hit balls - Average speed of 10% hardest hit balls YEAR: Dstnc - Speed 2026: 384.4 - 107.4 2025: 384.6 - 108.0 2024: 384.7 - 107.5 2023: 387.1 - 107.6 2022: 383.8 - 107.3 2021: 388.7 - 107.8 2020: 391.0 - 107.1 180
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 31/07/2026baseballsavant.mlb.com/game-strateg...baseballsavant.mlb.comGame Strategy ExplorerBaseball Savant 110
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 31/07/2026I think there will be repercussions in that case, when we calculate change in win expectancy in another part of the app 110
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com · 30/07/2026It should all be 100%... it's a bug, and I'll get that fixed 150