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first update of the year

Your new MLB fWAR leader

top 25 hitters by pwOBAcon (through 5/7)

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top 25 hitters by pwOBA (through 5/3)

best hitter on each team based on 2026 pwOBA (through 5/3)

qualified pitchers that have not given up a home run

@tangotiger @RobertStock6 I see haha

@MaxSportsStudio @RobertStock6 You are asking me about a decision made 20 years ago, and that preceded me by 10 years! But I can guess that with FF, FT, FS, FC, that the hierarchy was to use "Fast" as the first character, and then 4-seam, 2-seam, splitter, cutter as the 2nd character

Calling these orange pitches sinkers is what makes for this fun blip in the "best sinker movement" chart. One good reason to make your own pitch classification system instead of rely on statcast's version if you want some clean pitch modeling.

@tangotiger @RobertStock6 why FT not TF

@MaxSportsStudio @RobertStock6 Bautista throws 2-seamer that doesnt sink Our pitch naming: sometimes has the "seam" (FF) in the name and sometimes it has the "behaviour" (SI) in the name and sometimes it has the "grip" in the name (FO)! But for fastball: SI = FT = two-seam fastball FF = four-seam fastball

@TheOnlyPeef @RobertStock6 It is Felix Bautista!

@MaxSportsStudio @RobertStock6 You cannot be knowing that without looking it up

@TheOnlyPeef @RobertStock6 Yesavage is 64 degrees

@MaxSportsStudio @RobertStock6 Look at the arm angle it has to be

@RobertStock6 my model regards those sinkers as four-seamers

@MaxSportsStudio Felix Bautista lol

@RobertStock6 is it Yesavage?

@RobertStock6 who is this pitcher?

@pitchprofiler new standard deviation for the plus metrics?!

Kyle Harrison might be the steal of the decade and that’s saying something for the Brewers

Introducing proModeling+ 2026, our most predictive pitch-quality refresh yet! proStuff+ is what a pitch is, proPitching+ is what it does, and proLocation+ is what location adds. Stuff goes in. Trust comes out.

@xwOBA_enjoyer doesn't reflect Messick's last start but Gavin Williams' predictive strikeout rate being much higher is the reason he is ahead

@MaxSportsStudio Shocked it's Williams for the Guardians and not Messick

best starter on each team based on 2026 pwOBA (through 4/26)

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@MaxSportsStudio Ty!

offenses ranked by pwOBA