Carter Kessinger

I’m so excited to announce that I will be joining the Minnesota Twins as a Rehab Pitching Coach at their Fort Myers facilities! A huge thank you to everyone who has helped and supported me on this journey. I can’t wait to get started!

Justin Mitrovich, our 9th round pick in ‘25, showed out in his professional debut💥 4 IP / 3 H / 0 R / 2 BB / 5 K The @ElonBaseball product generated 9 whiffs on 15 swings on his SL 👀 #MNTwins

Welcome to the Show, John!!!

Mike Paredes just tied his professional career high in strikeouts for the @WindSurgeICT last night ⚔️ 4 IP / 2 H / 1 R / 0 BB / 7 K Since the start of last season, the RHP has a 12-0 record with a 2.46 ERA across 113.1 IP 📈 #MNTwins

Mookie Betts hasn’t had the kind of year we’re used to from him, setting career low marks in wRC+ (104), wOBA (.318), & SLG (.406). He might be on the back half of his HOF career, but I believe he can recapture some of what's made him so good at the plate with a few tweaks. 🧵

Ohl got the call ☎️ Welcome to the Show, Pierson!

@CMazzza @E_Mart97 Haha, love this! Definitely better than my first attempt

Picked a random MLB pitcher in my first attempt at a poorly trained stuff+ model/visualization. Please direct all criticisms to @E_Mart97 @ckessinger44, they are responsible for this 😹

@choice_fielder Congrats on the new job!

Some exciting personal news: I am very happy to announce that this week, I take on a new role as Sr. Quantitative Analyst with the Los Angeles Dodgers. This is a team with a proven winning philosophy, packed to the brim with exceptional people. I can’t wait to get started!

@_holmj_ @Johnny_Davis12 Try checking from the decision point (about .12 sec after release) and commit point (about .167 from home according to Statcast). That way you can account for pitches traveling at different speeds

@Johnny_Davis12 @ckessinger44 Yeah that would be interesting. On a similar note I also think that looking at the distance between pitches in 3D halfway from the plate would better indicate how well a pitch sequence tunneled

TOP PITCH BY TUNNEL SCORE 2024-10-26 Yoshinobu Yamamoto Slider: 2.503🔥 #RepBX @ #LetsGoDodgers MLB Film Room Links: previous pitch: mlb.com/video/?q=Seaso… tunneled pitch: mlb.com/video/?q=Seaso…

@_andrewparks Absolutely! 👊

@ckessinger44 Congrats Carter! Let’s get to work.

I’m so excited to announce that I will be joining the Minnesota Twins as a Rehab Pitching Coach at their Fort Myers facilities! A huge thank you to everyone who has helped and supported me on this journey. I can’t wait to get started!

@feldy_17 Hell yeah!

@ckessinger44 Welcome to the team! Looking forward to working with you 👊

@DJ_Engle34 Thanks, can’t wait to get going!

@DST_Hayden Thanks Hayden!

@ckessinger44 Congrats man!! 💪🏼

@michaelgodell Haha I 100% agree

@ckessinger44 Congrats! No offense, I hope there is little for you to do next season.

@bymichaelrosen @fangraphs @jacklambert__ @marekramilo Awesome Michael!

@fangraphs @jacklambert__ @marekramilo thanks to those guys for data and plots and also @ckessinger44 for his 3D pitch trajectory app (linked inside)

for @fangraphs: i dug into @jacklambert__'s and @marekramilo's new match+ model to better understand what makes tarik skubal so good blogs.fangraphs.com/tarik-skubal-i…

@tony_baseball_ I do not currently (my code is very messy😂) but DM me and I can walk you through what I did

@ckessinger44 This is so freaking cool! Do you have a git repo on this??

I'm so excited to present my very first Shiny app! This app is a 3D pitch trajectory visualizer built using plotly and contains data from 2021-2024. I'd love any comments on ways you think it might be improved. Have fun exploring! carterkessinger.shinyapps.io/Trajectories_v… (demo attached ⬇️⬇️⬇️)

@ReinselRyan I appreciate it! I’ll definitely be sure to reach out for future builds

First MAJOR update! Here are the new features: Full 2024 season now included Updated batter viewpoints Location-neutral trajectories: now you can see how trajectories compare if all pitches were thrown down the middle Check it out! carterkessinger.shinyapps.io/Trajectories_v…

@bymichaelrosen Check out guys like Ryan Yarbrough, Josh Hader, and Alex Wood too. All guys who reverse seam-shift their sinkers. Really weird that all of those guys are low slot LHPs.

sean manaea is a rare low slot pronator