Royals Fan and Pitch FX Guru, Mike Fast, Hired by Astros

Congrats to Mike and too bad he won't be around to answer all the hard Pitch FX questions.

4 months ago Jeff Zimmerman 18 comments 0 recs |

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Wow.

Kudos. He certainly deserves it.

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by Old Man Duggan on Jan 24, 2012 3:11 PM EST reply actions

Now when he slays the Dips dragon, we’ll never know about it. :(

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 24, 2012 3:24 PM EST reply actions

except when the Astros win the WS in a couple years

Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448

by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jan 24, 2012 5:26 PM EST up reply actions

True

But he still won’t be able to reveal his secret.

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 24, 2012 5:30 PM EST up reply actions

First Royals Review poster ever to be hired by a MLB front office?

Jack Marsh will be the second.

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Jan 24, 2012 4:34 PM EST reply actions

Tom Tango has posted here

And he’s done work for multiple MLB teams (I think always as a consultant). If Fast is an employee, rather than an IC, then he’s probably the first of those.

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 24, 2012 4:54 PM EST up reply actions

Yours has been my favorite baseball analysis on the web since I happened upon your breakdown of Bannister’s 2007 BABIP. Hope your new job will occasionally afford you an opportunity to open some pitch f/x studies to the internet community.

by kcdc1 on Jan 24, 2012 5:21 PM EST reply actions

pretty sure he's prohibited from posting anything of substance

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by Matt Klaassen on Jan 24, 2012 6:23 PM EST up reply actions

He will get the Josh Kalk treatment

Josh post’s the injury zone piece and is never heard from again.

Doubting Thomas, the patron saint of sabermetrics

by Jeff Zimmerman on Jan 24, 2012 8:14 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, I expect as much, but I can still hope

by kcdc1 on Jan 25, 2012 10:16 AM EST up reply actions

What Matt said

by Mike Fast on Jan 25, 2012 2:57 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Well earned, Mike

Congratulations

by KSinDC on Jan 25, 2012 7:24 PM EST up reply actions

thats

pretty cool i never read any of his work but it must of been good

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by Kansas City Keith on Jan 24, 2012 5:38 PM EST reply actions

Thanks, Jeff

and everyone else.

by Mike Fast on Jan 24, 2012 5:44 PM EST reply actions

Congrats

Please do not poach our main man Jin Wong.

by Gopherballs on Jan 24, 2012 7:10 PM EST reply actions 4 recs

Hopefully the Astros already have a "quick'n'dirty" guy to calculate Basic RC for them

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by Matt Klaassen on Jan 27, 2012 9:11 AM EST up reply actions

And they can find WHIP online

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 27, 2012 9:52 AM EST up reply actions

If the day comes when the Astros have the opportunity to hire Jin Wong

I will be first in line to recommend him. But I doubt Dayton Moore’s going to want to let him go. You guys are just displaying that you don’t know how to run a baseball team when you make fun of Jin.

by Mike Fast on Jan 28, 2012 9:37 PM EST up reply actions