Monday, January 30, 2023

Physical Size Associations to Offensive Performance Among Major League Leaders

This one goes out to a very smart old friend, Dr. Ryan Crotin, a PhD in Exercise Science who has worked for the St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles and LA Angels of Anaheim in various sports performance roles.  Here we are celebrating the 2008 New York Penn League Championship win with the Batavia Muckdogs:

2008 Batavia Muckdogs NY-P League Champs


In this 2014, Dr. Crotin looked at the relationship of physical size (BMI was main metric used) and offensive performance of MLB league leaders dating back to the 1950s. 

Over the 60 year period, size was positively correlated to performance, but something very interesting started happening in the 1980s where MLB players started to see a significant increase in mass relative to height among the league leaders.




Link to study 

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