Originally posted on 04/05/2018:

taking an outlandish stance against lester early in the season like i did with fulmer.

lester's velocity is down. i have pitch by pitch data, maybe an idea is to come up with a query to detect when a starter's recent velocity is below career average. maybe pitches aren't breaking as much or spinning as much. other indicators or metrics that the pitcher doesn't have his "best stuff" lately. even if it is just an alert or a stat when compiling pregame preview data to will look over, might provide some value. sitting on gigs of data from mlb.com, maybe use it to provide a little extra context to a situation.