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March 27, 2015

Pitching Backward: Why Relievers Get A Free Pass

by Jeff Long

Or: How Was Carlos Marmol?

March 13, 2015

Pitching Backward: Every Team's Pitching Depth, Ranked

by Jeff Long

Which teams' rotations will survive the inevitable blowing up?

March 5, 2015

Pitching Backward: In Search of the Winningest Logo

by Jeff Long

Among all the things that don't matter, might logos not matter a bit less?

February 23, 2015

Pitching Backward: Which Hitters Have it Toughest?

by Jeff Long

The realigning of pitching supremacy.

February 13, 2015

Pitching Backward: How to Outperform Your Prospect Status

by Jeff Long

By James Paxton.

February 4, 2015

Pitching Backward: PECOTA's No. 1 Breakout Candidate, And the Case Against Him

by Jeff Long

A pitcher with some filthy stuff coming off a mini-breakout year in his mid-20s. Sounds like Kluber, right?

January 22, 2015

Pitching Backward: The Cost of Being on Baseball's Bad Side

by Jeff Long

What losing the All-Star game means for Baltimore.

January 15, 2015

Pitching Backward: Jake McGee's Smash-And-Grab

by Jeff Long

The simplest pitcher in baseball gets progressively more ridiculous.

December 19, 2014

Pitching Backward: Brandon McCarthy and the Outlier Curveball

by Jeff Long

Brandon McCarthy's breaker did different things last year, and so did Brandon McCarthy.

December 16, 2014

Pitching Backward: Curveballs and Changes

by Jeff Long

Exploring the league's curveballs, we find two excellent breakers that changed dramatically last year--though in surprising ways.

December 4, 2014

Pitching Backward: Best. Reliever Season. Ever.

by Jeff Long

Or, at least, in the past 25 years.

November 20, 2014

Pitching Backward: The Guy Who Makes Scherzer (Slightly More) Expendable

by Jeff Long

Even if Max Scherzer leaves this offseason, the Tigers will have a dominant top four. A big part of that is Rick Porcello's emergence. Here's how it happened.

November 14, 2014

Pitching Backward: Designing A Bullpen Usage Critique

by Jeff Long

Before we can criticize a manager for using one reliever instead of another, we have to know which reliever is better. How accurately can this be done in real time?

November 7, 2014

Pitching Backward: Perfect Hindsight and Bullpen Mismanagement

by Jeff Long

Which managers stood out for their ability to get their best pitchers in the biggest situations this year?

October 30, 2014

Pitching Backward: Sing, Sing, Sing, for the Unsung Affeldt

by Jeff Long

A bit more quietly, Jeremy Affeldt is approaching postseason records as impressive as Madison Bumgarner's.

October 21, 2014

Pitching Backward: How To Get A Hit Off Madison Bumgarner

by Jeff Long

Searching for the weakness in Bumgarner's gameplan.

October 17, 2014

Pitching Backward: First-Pitching to the Situation

by Jeff Long

A first attempt at measuring how much different pitchers pitch to the situation--and the questions it raises.

October 10, 2014

Pitching Backward: The Not-So-Sudden Breakout of October's Best Lefty Reliever

by Jeff Long

The emergence of Andrew Miller was a slow burn that happened right in front of us. How much should we have seen coming?

October 2, 2014

Pitching Backward: In Love With Lohse

by Jeff Long

A pitcher, a plan, and one great big metaphor.

September 25, 2014

Pitching Backward: Buxton or Beane?

by Jeff Long

Would you rather have the best GM or the best prospect for the future of your franchise? And more importantly, how would you determine the answer?