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Are higher fastballs tied to Julio Teheran’s success?

Related Topics: Julio Teherán, Haaretz, Fastball

Baseball, like many things, does not always yield answers easily. While fans and analysts have generally been good at describing what happened, the why of something happening is tricky. Over the past few years and decades, the industry and third-party observers have added stats upon stats and reams upon reams of baseball-related data. Some of these lend themselves well to correlating the whats and the whys, but much like most non-scientific data, definitively evidencing causation tends to prove elusive. That’s really another way of saying: if you’ve accessed this article to find the smoking gun behind Julio Teheran’s recent run of success, I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong place.