The Futures League community is heartbroken over the loss of former Vermont Lake Monsters pitcher Jack Birtwell, who passed away on Saturday, April 11.
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We are saddened and heartbroken about the passing of 2025 Lake Monsters pitcher Jack Birtwell.
We send our thoughts and condolences to his family and all his teammates with the Lake Monsters, at Gordon College, and at Sacred Heart University.
@kozy_shack Also positive correlation between POI, bat speed and attack angle correct?
I think breaking down this connection is one of the most effective ways to translate between cue and numbers based approaches.
@sean_hogan38 Fantastic thread, thank you for sharing. Would love to hear about what type of arsenals you would advise a pitcher to throw based on their ability to create gyro.
@Miraj_Shah12 The main goal really was just to get a general sense and explore what features jump off the page as important. I was more interested in the feature importance than having a predictive model. First time playing with the data and excited to really get into it.
Used basic RandomForest Regression on data from the Driveline Open Biomechanics project to determine the largest factors on pitching velocity. Out of the three phases (force generation, absorption, transfer), being able to transfer energy effectively seems paramount.
@Miraj_Shah12 Yeah I definitely have plans to improve on this by trying out a few different things. I think simplifying and keeping only the main movement patterns, running more test/train splits, xgboost, or normalizing metrics could be useful.