Baseball’s balance in math
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Earlier today, I wrote a little piece about what I called the balance that baseball is finding with all the strikeouts and all the home runs. I will have an interesting follow (I think) tomorrow as Bill James weighs in.
But before doing that, I wanted to share a little cool math from Tom Tango.
In the piece, I point out that teams in 2017 are essentially …