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Cubs Related Podcast: Banner Raising Ceremony & Look Back at Cubs Start to 2017 Season
Corey and Brendan reflect on their experiences of attending the Cubs banner raising ceremony game and discuss this season’s first…
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Cubs Quick Hits: Small Sample Size Update on Addison Russell’s Contact Rate
We’ve chronicled Addison Russell’s peripherals for a while now. Googling “Addison Russell contact rate” will bring up Cubs Insider first…
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Kyle Schwarber’s NL-Leading Pitches Per PA Not Just Due to Small Sample
The hulking, ACL-reconstruction-timeline-defying Kyle Schwarber looks more like a middle -of-the-order hitter than a protoypical leadoff hitter. Yet he ranks…
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Cubs Quick Hits: Jason Heyward’s Impressive Quality Contact Numbers Against Brewers
Jason Heyward hit the ball well in the Milwaukee series, but he smacked pitches particularly well during Sunday’s game. According to…
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What to Make of Cubs Starters Throwing Much Slower First Time Through
Saturday marked the first milestone of the 2017 season: every Cubs starting pitcher got through their first outing. Analyzing first…
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I’m Curious About How Willson Contreras Positions Himself Behind Home Plate
Willson Contreras’s “transformation has been night and day,” says Jake Arrieta. Not only has Contreras gained the trust of his…
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Introducing ‘Pitch Track,’ A New Way to Visualize Pitch Movement
Statcast changed the way we view baseball. “How hard and high did he hit that homer?” I asked myself when…
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Explaining Jake Arrieta’s Extremely Low Velocity During First Start
In Jake Arrieta’s first start of the 2017 campaign, he averaged 90.5 mph, down from his typical 94 mph average. Even…
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Update on Statcast, PitchFX Change: Are Pitch Movement Comparisons Valid Across Years?
Dave Cameron of FanGraphs jolted the baseball numbers community when he published a post about Statcast’s takeover of PitchFX. This means…
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Cubs Quick Hits: Schwarber’s Homer Tanks Cardinals’ Win Expectancy
Kyle Schwarber launched a 7th-inning pitch from Brett Cecil deep into the right field Busch bleachers to give the Cubs…
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