Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports Martijn Verhoeven wears many hats. As the research lead for the Twins sports science department, he is in conversation with all sorts of people, including baseball operations staffers, coaches, hitters, pitchers, and the medical staff. Verhoeven is armed with biomechanical data from KinaTrax, and the insights from the data help all…
Zack Rollins Cair 2030 Skopje (Prva Liga) tabbed 29-year old American 200cm swingman Zack Rollins (college: MSUB) for new season. Rollins played last season at Shumen Basket in Bulgarian NBL league. In 34 games he had very impressive stats: 17.0ppg, 4.5rpg, 3.6apg and 1.6spg. 2023-24 was a great season as he was named to Eurobasket.com…
Player Development, Data Apprentice The Texas Rangers are seeking multiple apprentices in Player Development. Each Apprentice will work with one of the Rangers’ minor league affiliates and report to the Minor League Video Coordinator. Apprentices will operate as an extension of the coaching staff and be a resource for both players and coaches. They are…
Etha Engomis Nicosia (OPAP Basket League) strengthened their roster with the addition of 19-year-old 185cm point guard Petros Tsouloupas for the 2024-25 season. Tsouloupas has played for the last two years at AEK Larnaca in the OPAP Basket League. In 12 games last season, he recorded 3.8ppg. He helped them win the Supercup and make…
Over the last year, we’ve put a lot of effort into improving our player pages, which underwent a full redesign in June. When we updated the player page navigation as part of that redesign, we included pitch modeling in the season stats. Earlier this week, we announced the beta of our Membership-only player page dashboard…
Valencia Basket (Liga Endesa) has signed 28-year-old Croatian international 200cm small forward Luka Bozic for the upcoming season. Bozic previously played for KK Zadar in the Croatian Premijer Liga, where he emerged as the best scorer with 14.1ppg, 6.1rpg, and 5.9apg in 26 games last season, helping his team secure the league title. Bozic was…
Uruguay have been a machine offensively in their two Copa America matches, scoring eight goals. One of the players at the center of this impressive attack is Liverpool standout Darwin Núñez. Núñez has scored in both of Uruguay’s wins over Panama and Bolivia. Moreover, WhoScored.com have highlighted a couple of key stats that spotlight how…
Defending champion AS Monaco Basket (Betclic ELITE ProA) added 28-year old American power forward Vitto Brown (203cm-107kg-1995, college: Wisconsin) to their roster for the new 2024-25 season. Brown played for Pinar Karsiyaka in the Turkish BSL league last season, averaging 13.4ppg, 4.6rpg, and 1.4apg in 36 games. He also had a good run in the…
Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Like many other nerds, I have devoted a lot of time to slicing and dicing Baseball Savant’s new bat tracking data over the last few weeks. And like many other nerds, I’m not entirely sure how we’ll end up using this wealth of new information. More time, more data, and more…
(Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images) From 2019 to 2021, the San Francisco 49ers were already one of the NFL’s most talented teams, but they were perhaps lacking that final piece or two to help get them over the hump. In the 2022 season, they discovered that Brock Purdy, the last player chosen in…
