North Shore Tavern Mound Visit: How to use analytics to evaluate pitchers five different ways

Bryse Wilson.Over the last year, I’ve had many requests to do a Mound Visit that serves as a primer for analytics and how to use them. It’s been on my “to do” list for some time, and with the lockout entering its second month, now seems like the perfect time to do it.

The question was how should I present this information. A few readers asked for a bibliography of terms, something they could presumably put in their tabs for when I cite a stat they aren’t familiar with. I thought about doing one, but there are just so many different stats that the article would be really long, really boring and not offer anything more than a textbook definition. FanGraphs and MLB.com have glossaries of many…