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Tag: player

The music of the MRI

For the first half, I sat in the room with her. She was cov­ered with a white sheet and slid into the mas­sive dough­nut of the machine. Another per­son might see the image mor­bidly, as if she was half slid out of a mor­tu­ary stor­age slot. I didn’t see an image at all; just my […]

Big guys hit the ball far

A really fas­ci­nat­ing analy­sis of home run hit­ting rel­a­tive to dif­fer­ent vari­ables: height, weight, age, pitch loca­tion, etc. clipped from www.feedly.com Next up I graphed stan­dard dis­tance against a batter’s weight. It’s a stan­dard assump­tion that heav­ier play­ers have more raw power. And even though listed player weights are some of the more unre­li­able base­ball data […]