“The answer is no,” however, according to Dan Brooks, a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience at Brown University and the founder of brooksbaseball.net. “We’ve heard broadcasters say (Buchholz’ pitches) are dipping and diving and moving in weird ways — well, we can look at what the pitches are doing, we can look at the data. And the data say that they’re not doing anything special.”

Brooks’ website has data on nearly everything a pitcher can do on a mound: pitch selection, ...

There is nothing like a handcrafted leather framing of a good pitch.

And now, I’ll be blogging here every week. We’ll also be taking this rich PITCHf/x data and using it in other various ways to bolster The Post’s Nats coverage. Stay tuned, and let us know what you think.

We have a pretty good idea of the Justin Masterson skillset. He’s got a big, sweeping motion and he leans heavily on a low-90s sinker. Sometimes he’ll threaten to go entire games without throwing anything else. Masterson keeps the ball on the ground, he strikes out about one batter for every six, and he issues the occasional walk. Last year, he posted about the same FIP as Jon Lester and C.J. Wilson, which is good company at least in terms of name value. Masterson’s ERA was elevated, but, ...