Data-Driven Prospect Analysis
It’s early in the season, but several top pitching prospects have already logged 4 starts in the 2019 campaign. Let’s look at some of those hot starts using our Strawberry Start Ratio (SSR) to point out some of the top performers thus far.
Read More Early Top Pitching Performers – Strawberry StartsWelcome to the April 11th installment of The Daily Farm Report! We rake the news for each organization’s top farmhands and give you a digest with some commentary for you greedy prospectors to enjoy. Here are some recent news and highlights:
Read More Daily Farm Report (4/11)Back in the halcyon days before Baseball Farm was born, Chip Bourne created a methodology for determining which hitters and pitchers at each MiLB level had the best performances on the prior day. Tweaking the pitching performance data to determine the ‘best’ starts proved to be surprisingly tricky. So Chip came up with a formula which we have christened the “Strawberry Start Ratio” (SSR).
The SSR is inspired by Baseball HQ’s work on the PQS system. Basically, a pitcher gets credit for hitting certain benchmarks during the course of a start. The benchmarks for our SSR system are:
Read More DIGGING DATA: 2018’s Strawberry Start StudsBrenden and Alex take on their third organization in the AL Central, the Detroit Tigers. The system has a few marquee arms but is light on position players. The Justin Verlander trade and the 2018 draft should do a nice job in remedying that problem for the Motor City Kitties.
Read More Cream of the Crop – Detroit Tigers Top 20 FarmhandsSo far, all my prospect writeups have focused on position players hailing them all as potential Phenoms.
Today I’m going to try my hand at evaluating pitchers. As many do in fantasy, I buy into the adage of
there is no such thing as a pitching prospect (shorted to TINSTAAPP, still a mouthful but wouldn’t call
people in the fantasy baseball community creative, so we might have to outsource for a better name).
Instead of spending an entire article on one pitching prospect and most likely looking like an idiot when
he doesn’t turn out. I’m going to hedge my bets a bit and highlight 2 of my personal favorites when it
comes to young arms. This way I double my chances of picking a successful pitcher down the line.
Baseball Farm’s player page for Matt Manning.
Read More Matt Manning