Checking in on Rangers pitchers performances
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Good morning, folks.
Your Texas Rangers are currently 16-17 on the year. We are approximately 20% of the way through the season...damn, that’s farther into the season than it feels like. The season is going by kind of quickly.
A little while back, we took a look at the Rangers hitters, and how the Statcast expected data compared to their actual results. Today, we want to take a look at the same info for the Rangers’ pitchers. We are going use wOBA and xwOBA — wOBA is a one-stop-shopping single number to express overall offensive performance, and xwOBA is the same thing, only using expected results based on exit velocity and launch angle of each individual ball put in play rather than what really happened, along with the actual walk, strikeout and HBP results.