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The world may never know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. But we can at least use data…
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This past weekend Danny Salazar recorded the 2,000,000th strikeout in MLB history. Given it took MLB until 1976 to…
All hitters approach the plate differently depending on where they sit in the count. But great hitters and poor…
After the NBA introduced the three-point line in 1979, it would have been be intuitive to assume that guards, who…
This year's MLB All-Star Game was the most watched since 2010 making it the highest rated All-Star event among…
David Price may be traded soon. Price would make any MLB team better, but Jeff Sullivan of FanGraphs examined which…
At this year's MLB All-Star Game, the A's, who have the sixth lowest payroll, have the most All-Stars of any team in…
With the addition of LeBron James, and assuming that no one is traded from now until the first game (which is…
If you want a good baseball offense, you need to milk to pitch count. That's what it says in Moneyball, and it's been…
With Spain out in the group stage this year, there will be no repeat champion in Brazil. Do any of the remaining…
David Ortiz hit his 450th home run late last month, moving him to 37th on the career home runs list. There's no…
Fangraphs ranked the worst pitches thrown in June based off PITCHf/x data. The very worst is this pitch thrown by Juan Carlos Oviedo, 72.8 inches from the center of the strike zone. The rest aren't far behind. Read more
Just like mentions of Nazis spiked on Twitter when Germany played America and Algeria, the chart above from Redditor…
We have every reason to expect that the Cavs will improve over the next few years, especially since team is…
Argentina and Switzerland was the fourth of seven knockout games this year to go into extra time, and if the…
Tim Lincecum's no-hitter yesterday was the 22nd since 2010 and a walk away from becoming the sixth perfect game in…
When the 49ers begin playing in the new Levi's Stadium this season they'll be 43.3 miles away from San Francisco's…
Like the Olympics, athletes in the World Cup weren't necessarily born in the country they play for. This interactive…