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Do pitch tunnels help explain the frustration of Michael Pineda and Nathan Eovaldi?

Last week, the team at Baseball Prospectus unveiled a host of new pitching metrics. The new data attempts to quantify certain concepts like command, control, and deception in a more concrete way. I’d highly encourage you to read through BP’s analysis to get a full scope of what these numbers illustrate.

In short, BP has devised called strike probability, or CS Prob, as a measure of control. CS Prob represents the probability any given pitch a particular pitcher throws will be a strike, adjusted for count, batter, and the strike zone actually called by umpires (as opposed to the rule book strike zone).