With Francisco Lindor's ground-out to Jeff McNeil to end the Mets's eighth inning rally, I'd say there's finally a victor in the rat-raccoon debate

Enjoying seeing how Jonah Tong lite looks

This certainly helps answer the question why teams are willing to pay >40M to Soto, Bichette, Othani, Tucker, etc. You’re not paying for what they do in July, you’re paying for what they do in October

Run to Classic semifinals has huge impact across Italy MIAMI – Team Italy has heard the jabs. They understand that people look at them not as an Italian ballclub, but a group of guys from America masquerading as an Italian team. But this team doesn’t care...

Italy may be out of the World Baseball Classic, but its impact on baseball in the country will be felt for years.

“I hope you guys are enjoying watching us as much fun as we're having representing you,” Pasquantino said.

www.mlb.com/news/italy-w...

Statcast Breakdown: Freddy Peralta - Metsmerized Online I come from Italian heritage, so it’s sacrilege that I haven’t incorporated food into my baseball analysis. That changes here. I’ve begun to think of an-bat as one of my favorite pastimes: cooking a h...

Anyway words here about it

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Feature 4:

Fixed various bugs and oddities

Feature 3:

- Added profile picture to each player's homepage.

This was a first-time attempt at doing anything like this & I really liked how it turned out

Feature 2

- Updated player pages.

Here's empirical proof that “Fastball Freddy” may be a thing of the past, but “Frequent Freddy Four-Seamer” is still plenty alive.

Feature 1

- Added the ability to filter leaderboards by Attack Zone & Pitch

Curious which pitchers threw the most fastball-fastball combination down the middle in 2025? Now you have your answer (it’s Joe Ryan)



Excited to share v1.0.1 of my updated Pitch Sequencing website

pitchsequencing.streamlit.app

🧵 below of the new functionality

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Here’s a thread.

it’s time  

I love this idea and can’t wait to poke around. Is an open source repo (kinda like pybaseball) where people can vote on requested features and/or make PRs to add these features?

Whispers it honestly

Screams “Bo Bichette: Opening Day shortstop” to me

Good start to the Mets season

I’m taking a stand with Stearns and his decision to not resign Pete the Polar Bear by only using Polars in my code going forward

Baseball Time

What a show

Great article. It’s very intuitive. For the last two charts, does a similar correlation exist between Run Value & Stuff+?

Statcast Breakdown: Why Pitch Sequencing Matters - Metsmerized Online After 150 years of baseball, a simple question still remains: what pitch should come next? It’s a really difficult question to answer. Simply put, a pitch is not defined by a singular characteristic. ...

This is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s loads more just to be found - player, team, and platoon analysis are all available.

I’m excited to see what additional analysis materializes.

A recent article on MMO about this was recently published.

metsmerizedonline.com/statcast-bre...

Surprisingly, the same pitch followed each other to identical spots pretty often.

My theories:

- When Diaz was ahead in the count, he threw the pitch in tandem to induce a swing-and-miss
- Regardless of count, his slider performed best low and away
- It generally follows Diaz’s usage patterns

The same sequential pitch so often seems strange but it’s actually very prevalent.

Take Edwin Diaz for example.

Diaz’s profile is interesting. From watching games, I assumed his fastball followed his slider often, but no.

In 2025, the Mets’s most frequent sequences: 

- Holmes: Sinker/ Sinker 365 times
- Manaea: Four-Seam Fastball/Four-Seam Fastball 306 times
- Diaz: Four-Seam Fastball/Four-Seam Fastball 282 times
- Stanek: Four-Seam Fastball/Four-Seam Fastball 281 times
- Diaz: Slider/Slider 241 times

Pitch Pairs This Python script powers the backend of a Streamlit

I’ve spent the last few months thinking about Pitch Sequencing.

To look further into it, I made a living, breathing website to track the most frequent sequences from the 2025 MLB season.

pitchsequencing-ny9xxhmqpcatuygmnafhwr.streamlit.app

🧵

Hell yeah

I’ve been writing about baseball for almost a decade now. Writing (and in general baseball analysis( has granted me so many opportunities. Somehow, I’ve even parlayed it to full-time employment.

There’s absolutely more still in the works and something (very cool imo) right on the horizon

Offense At A Premium At Citi Field. Here's Why. - Metsmerized Online The argument that Jose Iglesias’s post-game concert was the most impressive performance by a hitter at Citi Field has some merit. Citi Field has historically been a desert for batters, Jody Gerut asid...

In March, I took a look at Citi Field and visualized the park’s historical park factors using pybaseball game_logs’s module (iykyk). Throughout the season, I contributed a PR and looked into several of the issues.

metsmerizedonline.com/offense-at-a...