Nick HillJan 2, 20194 min readStat Scouting the Minors: Z-Scores for A-Ball HittersTwo days ago I presented some Z-score spreadsheets for Low-A hitters. You can think of the scores as a very crude measure of what the...
Nick HillDec 31, 20186 min readStat Scouting the Minors: Z-Scores for Low-A HittersWhen I Stat Scouted the Blue Jays farm earlier this month (1, 2), I simply perused minor league leaderboards sorted by statistical...
Nick HillDec 30, 20185 min readBlue Jays Add Underrated Pitching Depth in Shoemaker, RichardThe Blue Jays have reportedly acquired Clayton Richard, who was designated for assignment by the Padres on December 20th. Two days ago,...
Michael PaulDec 29, 20188 min readThe Evolution of Batting StatisticsBaseball statistics, and subsequently the way in which we evaluate the contributions of baseball players to their teams, have undergone...
Nick HillDec 27, 201810 min readStat Scouting the Farm - HittersThis is the second part of Stat Scouting the Farm. Last time, I talked about the arms. The point of this exercise is to dig up...
Nick HillDec 17, 20187 min readStat Scouting the Farm - Pitchers David Laurila’s Sunday Notes excerpt from the weekend is a Stat Scout’s dream. Ryan Noda obviously has a decent chance to be the next...
Nick HillDec 7, 20184 min readCarson Cistulli Hiring Shows Creativity, Modernity by Blue JaysBaseball is both beautiful and mechanical; a spectacle of aesthetics and the product of blunt business and analytics. On any given day...
Michael PaulDec 7, 20182 min readThe Welcome PostToday marks an exciting day for us here at Radio Scouts, as we usher in a brand-spanking-new blog to the Toronto Blue Jays online blog...