Tim Melville

Pro Pitcher ⚾USA Baseball Alumnus🇺🇸 Barbecue 🍖

[Pitch Profiler @pitchprofiler]

Introducing Arsenal Interactions!

proMix+, proMatch+, and proMax+: breadth, tunneling, and one overall arsenal grade, mapped across every pitch pairing and rebuilt as a live 3D trajectory view.

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@LanceBroz FTFY

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@HalToHell *Low spin efficiency FB

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

Standard dose of L-theanine is 100mg so maybe 2-3 teaspoons?

I used to take Alpha Brain before pitching and liked it, but most nootropics aren’t as popular as more traditional stimulants.

Never pitched on ADHD meds myself, but some guys swear they help focus while others feel they hurt feel/command.

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@MLB @Rockies

[Lance Brozdowski @LanceBroz]

"New age analytics" love Nico Hoerner. Old school analytics love Nico Hoerner.

You still need to layer OBP/SLG into value for hitters whose strength is batting average.

Cliff Floyd and I discussed on @WatchMarquee. @TheRealHoz35 @StevenCheah

[Athlyticz @Athlyticz]

Added an umpire perspective layer to my ABS viewer.

Toggle it on and you see the ump's blind spots, regions of the zone where line-of-sight is partially occluded by the catcher's body or where viewing angle degrades depth perception. Distinct from the Statcast shadow zone (borderline pitch location). This is about umpire viewing geometry: where the slot position creates areas of lower perceptual confidence.

These are the regions where catcher framing mechanics have the highest impact on the call, and in the ABS era, where challenge strategy matters most.

Also built in a zone cell highlight showing which 1/9th of the ABS zone each pitch crosses through, a gained strikes model with ABS challenge adjustment, and a deception chart (not shown in video) decomposing glove drift into what the ump can see versus what's hidden along his line of sight.

[Lance Brozdowski @LanceBroz]

A pitcher's 4S spin efficiency is one of the more underrated development metrics.

The #Mariners had 4 pitchers materially drop theirs this season (Gilbert, Hancock, Munoz, Catillo).

Is it malleable? And if so, why don't more teams change it?

Tease 👇, full vid in thread! 👀

[Umpire Auditor @UmpireAuditor]

Umpire Hunter Wendelstedt tied a season high with 9 calls overturned in the Rockies Padres game.

He missed 18 calls in the game and 12 of them went against the Rockies.

The Rockies lost on a walk off in the 9th.

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@LanceBroz @FlexProGrip Breathing life into point the ball towards second base old school gospel.

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@LanceBroz @FlexProGrip Pretty high torqued grip. Separation between and ring and middle finger and anchoring on top of seam with middle is what stands out.

[Kyle Boddy @drivelinekyle]

@DrivelineBB SSW dashboard for an active MLB pitcher who trains at Driveline. Here's a session of pitches with seam latitude analysis.

The tooling/models are still in alpha; will be in production come college summer.

@LanceBroz @PitcherList and @enosarris may appreciate this peek.

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@Rockies https://t.co/jNGSzY9ukA

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@PitchingNinja

[Tyler Beede @TylerBeede]

I’m doing things I haven’t done in 4 years…. 2 innings today sitting 96 😤

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@Skipple_ @millertyme08 @RobertStock6 Yeah but that’s kind of the point, we are already halfway there. The jump to Ai generated visuals using the same live data isn’t that crazy. Just a higher fidelity version of what already exists.

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@millertyme08 @RobertStock6 Free

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@millertyme08 @RobertStock6 It’s already here apparently https://t.co/3TJPnQ69gY

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@RobertStock6 Apparently the future is already here. https://t.co/3TJPnQ69gY

[Tim Melville @Timelville]

@RobertStock6 Ai rebroadcasting will be the future. Just need MLB Gameday feeding a model that recreates the game in real time, just generated video using player likeness and play-by-play data.