Ben Bailey

Sr. Platform Engineer at @workleaphq // I write about baseball at and other things at // Hampshire College alumn

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

@brendan_cubs Why not Brasier instead? Pressly has a 22.6% K rate and 4.8% BB rate since the blow up, and Brasier 18.8% and 9.4%. Pretty much the same fastball velo as well, and Brasier is making less money. I think it says something that they went to Flexen over him Sunday.

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

Did a quick thread on the other site about Yusei Kikuchi. You can find my baseball takes more frequently there for now.

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

It didn't quite work out, but good to see someone pinch hit for a lefty with a righty against Leiter. Always wondered why more teams didn't do that when he was with the Cubs.

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

The most whiffs the Guardians pitching staff got in a game all year was 31. They already have 27 through 5 innings today.

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

@SamMillerBB Boog Sciambi does this pretty regularly on Cubs broadcasts--it's definitely useful

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

In 2023 (when Hosmer was on the Cubs), the Cubs hit .353/.389/.471 against Williams in four appearances

[Eric Hosmer @TheRealHoz35]

Great find ! Cubbies had this in 22 when I took my talents there

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

Shota Imanaga tied a career high in swinging strikes today with 22. Drew Smyly keeps the Cubs record since 2021 with 23 whiffs against the Giants on September 9, 2022 https://t.co/UCv0cacEbh

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

The Cubs are lined up to face Skenes and Jones again this series which would be the 4th time this year for each. No other team has faced either 3 times.

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

Shōta Imanaga has six of the top ten Cubs starts by whiffs since 2022 and 8 of the top 20.

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

Mark Leiter Jr. has a better K-BB% over the last two seasons than Tanner Scott, and he’s under team control for two more seasons

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

Of course, this wouldn't be possible without Baseball Savant. All the data comes from there, and I continue to be thankful that we have this data publicly as a sport. Player and team pages also link to their Savant pages.

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

I've always wanted more granular tracking of Statcast's Outs Above Average metric, so I spent the last month or so working on a website that lets you see how each player's OAA has changed each day https://t.co/xbkA5gdiqp

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

I don't think tiny-sample defensive metrics like this are necessarily useful, but I've been curious about daily changes in OAA for a while. One note, Baseball Savant doesn't seem to update for yesterday's games, so today's changes won't always correspond to to yesterday's game.

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

@TheBlogfines Not sure how recent this is, but he's had some of the worst defense played behind him

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

The Cubs have hit two three-run home runs since.

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

The Cubs haven't hit a 3-run homer or grand slam since June 1st.

[Ben Bailey @bennett]

The Cubs had five three-run home runs before May and one since.