Mizzou Baseball in the Majors

■ Tigers' Scherzer just another figure filbert (ESPN.com)

I snipped the real meat of the piece, in which Scherzer says the only thing he finds particularly useful is PITCHf/x, which is more raw data than sabermetrics, per se. At its heart, that data is simply the modern version of pitch-charting, which has been used by pitchers and coaches for many decades (if haphazardly). . . .