Over at Fangraphs, Owen Watson has written up a nice story on the near death and the possible accidental rebirth of the screwball in the changeups being thrown today.
We got the news last week that Mark Buehrle will likely start the season sitting at home waiting for an opportunity to arise so the praise of the statistical oddity he is started off at Fangraphs.
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Darren Wilman, the guy behind BaseballSavant.com and now the Director of Baseball Research and Development for MLB.com, has given us another look at the kinds of things that can come out of Statcast.