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Kyle Bland

@blandalytics.pitcherlist.com

Trying to make analytics a little less boring. All takes backed by a colorful chart Dir. of Data Analytics & Research @ https://pitcherlist.com/. He/Him

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About 20 minutes out to start time, if you still need that nudge.

Just added the great @blandalytics.pitcherlist.com to the slate for a Sunday noon ET walk-through of the new player cards at PitcherList!

Reg link; details here: www.baseballhq.com/pricing/2026...

06.03.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/pitc...

06.03.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our new Pitcher Game Cards are live!

Follow @pitcherlistplv.pitcherlist.com, which will be posting these cards each day throughout the season!

06.03.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

We’re definitely re-labeling it to β€œResults” and are shifting the orientation of those grades around. The idea being a left-to-right flow of β€œthis is who he was today” to β€œthis is how he performed today”

05.03.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We hear you. Working out exactly how we want to handle it, but that's the plan!

04.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

His process (Model Grades) was better than his results (Start Grade)

03.03.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think a good number of Stuff models do that now.

03.03.2026 15:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Yeah, you utilize acceleration-based movement.

Our player cards do that for the shaded regions from last season. It applies last season’s acceleration to that game’s average time-to-plate for that pitch type (ex Strider is creating similar FF movement to last year, just at a slower velo)

03.03.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also worth noting what their velo is. If they’re at the upper end of their movement distribution from last year *and* they’ve gained velo, that’s even more impressive.

03.03.2026 14:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This mural slaps. Literally turned around so I could get a picture.

02.03.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 2398 πŸ” 365 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 35

Your first 2 are so much fun

02.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This year is different. *This* year, it works

02.03.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't have the full Process+ suite running yet, but Griffin has faced roughly average pitch quality (75 being MLB avg, 10=StDev)

02.03.2026 07:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I might be able to spin that up later tonight πŸ‘

01.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When the Taco Bell cantina gives you extra food >>>

01.03.2026 06:36 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Drop the burrito rec

01.03.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

FWIW, the letter grades map to a C being average at that stat, with full letter grades being a standard deviation. Plus values are 100 is average w a 15 StDev

27.02.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

See you there!

27.02.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Real estate is at a premium, and we sacrificed a legend for a bit more info. I’m going to keep iterating over this to get it exactly how I want it, and a scale legend is high on the list

27.02.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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In this house, we stan @robertstock6.bsky.social. Dude looked *good* today

27.02.2026 06:18 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The greatest thing on the internet today

25.02.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll be there! πŸ™‹πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

26.02.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Correct! Start grade is trained on regular season, and he gets dinged there. Start Grade also considers observed results (Ks/ER/BBs, etc), while the model values are strictly modeled outputs.

26.02.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
26.02.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our new player cards!

Overall Start Grade, location models, plvStuff models, it’s all here.

Here’s Shōta Imanaga’s outing from yesterday. Look at that fastball stuff bump!

@blandalytics.pitcherlist.com is taking requests on who you want to see! 2025 starts are available as well!

26.02.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Well I *WAS* capping at A+ but I might need to revisit that πŸ˜‚

26.02.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Felt like a better scale for people to intuit β€œWas it good/bad/fine”. And there are already enough numbers on here lol

25.02.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll be taking a handful of requests for starts throughout the day (including Spring Training!)

25.02.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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We've been working hard on developing our new Player Game Cards behind the scenes, and I love how they turned out!

We have Traits (Velo, Movement, Etc), Outcomes (Str%, CSW%, xSLGcon), and Modelled Value (plvStuff, plvLocation, and PLV), for every pitch thrown, plus visualizations!

25.02.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Because now your imposter syndrome has imposter syndrome lol

25.02.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0