How the Yankees Add Up Using Baseball's New Math
For many years now, baseball fans who love digging through the game's numbers have made FanGraphs and Baseball Reference their homes away from home. While those sites are still abundantly useful for getting lost in rabbit holes, there's a new kid in town. Baseball Savant harnesses the power of Statcast by providing a central database for things that seemed unfathomable to measure just a few decades ago like exit velocity, launch angle, and spin rate. Miserable baseball fans with stale minds tend to hate these things and will shout to the heavens about them. Those of us who agree that knowledge is power tend to embrace them as new tools that inform us on the state of baseball at this very moment, which will no doubt change significantly in due time, just as baseball always has. But who am I to judge? Before we dig into some numbers here, I want to address this lazy , growing narrative that " analytics are ruining the game" being pushed by folks who probably don'