Dead Ball
The Dead Ball Is Back
League-wide home run rates dropped 12% between 2023 and 2025. The ball changed. Again.
Data-driven visual essays that make the invisible physics of baseball visible. Spin rates, swing decisions, and probability shifts, designed to be felt, not just read.
150 years of baseball. 20,000+ careers. Pick your ballot from the data. WAR, peak value, postseason performance, and the arguments that never end.
The forces behind every pitch, every swing, every season. Free.
League-wide home run rates dropped 12% between 2023 and 2025. The ball changed. Again.
Save percentage tells you almost nothing about reliever quality. The best reliever on most teams doesn't pitch the 9th inning. The closer role costs teams wins.
The clock cut 26 minutes off an average game. It also changed strikeout rates, walk rates, stolen base attempts, and how pitchers sequence their arsenals.
Data-driven analysis of baseball's biggest shifts. No fluff, no gatekeeping.
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