Saberseminar Takeaways, Open Command & Sweeper Injury Risk

Several presentations and tools from Saberseminar have us thinking about baseball in different ways. Eno, Trevor, and DVR share a few takeaways and threads to pull on in the future, including the impact of high pitch count innings, biomechanics, and more. Plus, they discuss an impressive tool -- Open Command -- and look at some of the biggest differences across pitchers compared to Location+, and they revisit a previous talk about arm angle and it's relationship to injury, especially when a high arm-angle pitcher utilizes a sweeper.

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Rundown

0:00 More Takeaways From Saberseminar

1:36 A Fun New Tool: BaseballFlightsim.com from Kevin Brown

5:04 Projection Fragility: Michael Hershkowitz & Beat the Streak

9:52 Velocity Dip After High Volume Inning (Michael Alan Shabraeck)

13:49 Biomechanics: Front Knee Collapse (Ben Lerch)

19:32 Reducing Silos: Reds POBO Nick Krall

22:38 Open Command: What Does It Tell Us? (Doyoung-Tom Kim)

45:48 High Arm Angles & Sweepers: A Bad Mix? (Connor Richards)

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