It’s an off day for the Phillies, which means there is finally some time to look at where the team is right now and see if anything is trending in the right direction. That means traipsing along the various statistical websites and finding little nuggets around the team that are pretty interesting. These are but a few random thoughts on this random Thursday off day.
- Coming up with the perfect way to statistically analyze defense has been the biggest development for baseball in the past few years. Perhaps the best statistic created of late has been OAA (outs above average) since it uses Statcast to take many different things into account when creating a number.