During those years, he said, the two-strike debate never really disappeared. “When I was working for the Dodgers, every time one of our batters would strike out in a big situation, I would get texts ...

Baseball's newest tracking tools have given one old dugout argument a faster swing. When a hitter comes up with two strikes, fans, coaches and former players often call for the same adjustment: cut ...

The difference was modest in scale but consistent, with the skew-normal approach showing better expected log predictive density for both swing length and bat speed. What hitters really seem to do with ...