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Volume IV · 2026-08-30 · Baseball intelligence almanac
Mithrandir Metrics
- Slate
- 12 MLB games indexed
- Pace
- +24.7 TB
- Live
- 4 games in progress
Data Live cache current
Updated Aug 31 06:00 AM ET
Today's games 12
Projection season 2026
Interactive 3D →
Featured · 3D Pitch Lab
Explore the 3D Pitch Lab →
Ryan Helsley tunnels the 4-seam fastball and slider.
Two pitches that leave the hand on the same line and split late. From the hitter's eye they are nearly one pitch at the commit point, then break 18.3″ apart by the plate.
0.3″
apart at commit
→
18.3″
apart at plate
69.5×
divergence
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New · Perfect Season
Play Perfect Season →
Draft an all-time roster. Can you go 162-0?
Our take on the viral 82-0 game, built for baseball and backed by a real engine. Spin a random franchise and era, draft a full roster across 150 years of players, and we run your team through an era-adjusted simulation into a record, with a full analytical breakdown of the season.
1876+
every era
17
picks
162-0
the dream
Interactive 3D →
New · 3D Swing Simulator
Open the 3D Swing Simulator →
Bo Bichette swings at -2°. We’d move it to 12°.
Real bat tracking, rebuilt as a full 3D swing: an animated batter sweeping his true swing plane, every angle annotated against the MLB average. When our optimization model sees a flat path, the recommended swing overlays as a dashed target. Search any hitter in the league.
-2°
his attack angle
→
12°
our target
3D
full swing sim
New · The Mirror
Open The Mirror →
We simulate every game pitch by pitch, 8,000 times.
The Mirror is our PA-by-PA Monte Carlo engine: real lineups, arsenals, bullpen logic, park and weather, run thousands of times into win probabilities, projected totals and starter strikeouts, then re-simulated live from the actual game state inning by inning. Every call is graded against what really happened on the Sim Record.
8,000
sims / game
live
in-game re-sim
graded
vs reality
New in the Lab / pitcher-vs-hitter scouting
The Matchup Dissector
Any pitcher vs any hitter, pitch by pitch in 3D. The arsenal flies to the plate, the hitter's holes light up red, and the out pitch surfaces itself.
Open the Matchup Dissector →The Comp Constellation
Who is this hitter built like? A star map of profile-shape comps over six feature groups, with the why behind every match and an honest sparse sky when no true twin exists.
Open the Comp Constellation →Pregame Scouting Report
A starter against a full lineup: the top threats, the easiest outs, the pitch to attack each hitter, and the sleeper the box score hides.
Open the Scouting Report →
Standings delta
+24.7
TB is +24.7 wins from preseason pace.
American League East
Actual pace 97.7 wins against 73.0 projected over 136 games.
Pitcher delta
+5.56
Little, Brendon is +5.56 on ERA versus projection.
TOR / ERA
20.3 IP sample; current-season indicators are driving the delta.
Regression watch
-0.193
Wiemer, Joey has a -0.193 wOBA vs xwOBA gap.
WSH / wOBA vs xwOBA
Large band; direction negative.
Top performers · SLG
Leaderboard snapshot 2026-08-31. The category rotates daily; repeated names mean the same players still lead the selected metric.
01
Yordan AlvarezHouston Astros / 593 PA
0.607
02
Pete Crow-ArmstrongChicago Cubs / 613 PA
0.577
03
Luis García Jr.New York Yankees / 467 PA
0.554
04
Hunter GoodmanColorado Rockies / 484 PA
0.542
05
Junior CamineroTampa Bay Rays / 593 PA
0.539
View complete leaderboard 2026-08-31
Trending players · latest live snapshot vs prior available snapshot
Trending up
2026-08-31
Trending down
2026-08-31
Projection movers · sample-qualified, role-normalized change
Rolling risers
2026-08-31
Fuentes, DidierPitcher / 68.3 IP / 53.6% obs
ERA7.79 → 4.96
-2.83
Misiorowski, JacobPitcher / 155.0 IP / 71.2% obs
ERA4.03 → 2.36
-1.67
Varland, LouisPitcher / 70.7 IP / 53.5% obs
ERA4.11 → 2.56
-1.54
Blackburn, PaulPitcher / 77.7 IP / 56.3% obs
ERA4.45 → 2.92
-1.53
Melton, TroyPitcher / 96.0 IP / 61.4% obs
ERA3.89 → 2.48
-1.41
Rolling fallers
2026-08-31
Lorenzen, MichaelPitcher / 122.0 IP / 71.2% obs
ERA4.12 → 6.23
+2.11
Senga, KodaiPitcher / 57.3 IP / 52.5% obs
ERA3.97 → 5.98
+2.00
Hughes, GabrielPitcher / 46.7 IP / 46.8% obs
ERA2.64 → 4.46
+1.83
Little, BrendonPitcher / 20.3 IP / 30.8% obs
ERA3.33 → 5.08
+1.75
Perkins, JackPitcher / 98.3 IP / 65.2% obs
ERA4.30 → 5.85
+1.54
Marquee
Live hitter
Yordan Alvarez
1.039
593 PA / current season
Live hitter
Luis Arraez
0.781
563 PA / current season
Live pitcher
Jacob Misiorowski
1.73
151.0 IP / current season
Live pitcher
Chris Sale
2.06
144.0 IP / current season
Pitcher delta
Little, Brendon
+5.56
ERA vs projection
Yordan Alvarez
Luis Arraez
Jacob Misiorowski
Chris SaleRecent dispatches
Apr 22, 2026
Projection
Standings projection table refreshed
Apr 20, 2026
Projection
Projected leaders board refreshed
Apr 20, 2026
Projection
Awards projection table refreshed
2026-05-28
Prospects
Current prospect universe refreshed
2026-08-31
Live state
Daily current-state story feed refreshed
2026-08-31
Leaderboards
Leaderboards cache refreshed