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Analysis of Pitching Skills of Major League Baseball Players

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Advances in Human Factors in Sports, Injury Prevention and Outdoor Recreation (AHFE 2017)

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This study examines the pitcher’s deciding ball after pushing a batter with two strikes of an aged pitcher group (31 to 43 year-old) and a younger pitcher group (20 to 30 year-old) by using an actual tracking data of the Major League Baseball in 2015. The regression analyses are conducted for all pitchers and for each age group on different pitch types; i.e., two-seam, cutter, splitter, forkball, straight and so on. We also analyze relationships between pitchers’ knocking out batters and their pitching characteristics measured by pitch movements by using a framework and empirical analyses. The results of the research model using Structural Equation Modeling show what makes the pitcher advantageous over the batter.

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  1. Department of Management Science and Engineering, Akita Prefectural University, 84-4 Aza Ebinokuchi Tsuchiya, Yurihonjo, 015-0055, Japan

    Michiko Miyamoto & Akihiro Ito

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Miyamoto, M., Ito, A. (2018). Analysis of Pitching Skills of Major League Baseball Players. In: Ahram, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Sports, Injury Prevention and Outdoor Recreation. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 603. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60822-8_2

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