Director, PD & Analytics @ Apex Baseball @Santurcebeisbol Team Nicaragua MBA @BerkeleyHaas Fmr: @Mets @Mariners @LaBarraBrava @DrivelineBB
Joined March 2016
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I’m excited to be joining the Cangrejeros de Santurce in the Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente in Puerto Rico, where I’ll be leading advance scouting.
Grateful to Santurce for the opportunity and excited to learn from another organization and culture while continuing my work with Apex Baseball.
I finished a data science internship with @NewYorkRedBulls this week as part of my MBA @berkeleyhaas. I then completed an independent study at Haas on a different question using what I learned with public data only (@fbref + @Statsbomb).
Which player traits travel when someone moves into the @Bundesliga_EN from a different league?
Visuals and an explorer linked:
colbymorris08.github.io/bund…
Results: the player’s prior traits matter more than the old-league label in predicting BL year 1 minutes played.
What still ranks the same after a Bundesliga move looks like role + habits — box defending, carrying, progressive passing — not “they came from Ligue 1.”
First-season minutes lined up with those traits. League gaps shrank once you knew the profile.
Unbelievable player and one of the highest ceilings of anybody we've worked with. Follows programs to a T, and did everything while still playing basketball and hitting (nukes). So stoked for Jensen!
3rd-rder Jensen Hirschkorn signs w/@Braves for $4 million, all-time @MLBDraft record for after 2nd rd (Brock Porter, $3.7 mil). Slot 84 value = $973,700. California HS LHP, 6-foot-7, easy mid-90s fastball, promising low-80s slider, feel for mid-80s changeup. @LSUbaseball recruit.
Players make changes from one of three sources:
Team Coaches | Private Coaches | Themselves
As an agency/team, establish trust with players. Iteration happens, so don't hide information from players & let them explore with guardrails (iteration doesn't mean aimless tinkering)
In between starts, Roki Sasaki had an idea. He approached pitching coaches Mark Prior and Connor McGuiness and said he wanted to throw his splitter harder, similar to how he did in the 2023 WBC. McGuiness tinkered the grip and Sasaki let it rip.
nytimes.com/athletic/7230696…
Un equipo, una nación...Vamos Nicaragua!
Colby Morris, del equipo de analítica de la selección nicaragüense de béisbol:
"Estamos trabajando para enfrentar a Cristopher Sánchez de República Dominicana". #Beisbol #WBC #Nicaragua #CaminoAlClasico8D
Elite mover, easy to dream on this projection and preexisting non-teachable traits. Can’t wait to see how his time at UCLA plays out!!
Elai Iwanaga flashed incredible stuff in his debut, striking out three of the four TCU hitters he faced.
Four whiffs on the breakers from a few different shapes — the ones that stood out:
84 mph -8/-10
83 mph -10/-8
78 mph -15/-8
Consistently 2900-3000 RPMs, and the four-seam had a cut-ride shape with 23-24 iVB at 93 mph.
Not to mention a wicked changeup that got a whiff at 85 mph 2/20.
I'm excited to be part of Team Nicaragua as Head of Analytics & Advance Scouting during this year’s @WBCBaseball
Currently in Nicaragua before heading to Miami for the WBC! ¡Vamos!
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FT Global MBA Ranking 2026: which schools ranked the highest? ft.trib.al/VyufwzK
NBA Biomechanical Analysis Part II:
I dove deeper into what makes a good shooter using Google's MediaPipe and slo mo NBA videos of a few shooters and the same techniques as the SPL Open Data to see if non-free throw elbow extension played as big a role as free throw:
Free throw biomechanical analysis:
Just wrapped an analysis on free throw biomechanics using the open source SPL dataset. Thought hip drive would be the key driver but turns out elbow extension ROM is the strongest predictor of makes. Shorter players especially rely on full extension to get necessary arc.
github.com/colbymorris08/wnb…
Interesting cross-sport applications could be the influence of other distal kinetic chain drivers on 'command' and optimal arc/angle such as knee extension in a soccer kick and wrist extension in the throw. Maybe looseness and accessing full ROM at this stage could be a strong predictor of motor control?
Video quality is imperfect and sample size needs to be larger, but clearly less ROM on the shot from Curry suggests a shorter stroke is needed in real time. Bigger, non-ball handlers likely have more time to catch and shoot and still get the shot above defenders
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Right-handed submariner Josh Hejka and the Texas Rangers are in agreement on a minor league contract, a source tells ESPN.
I was very confident Ken would get back to 95+ this winter--he was restricted from any drill work in his rehab process, had little mechanical guidance, and picked up some bad habits. Off to the races now, great work @TurnerGivens 👏
Whoever picks up @Ken_Waldichuk is getting an absolute steal.
Hardest avg and top FB velocity since pre TJ (and it was a bullpen).
Shapes are coming together. Big year ahead for him as he returns to his former self 🐐
@TreadHQ
Free throw biomechanical analysis:
Just wrapped an analysis on free throw biomechanics using the open source SPL dataset. Thought hip drive would be the key driver but turns out elbow extension ROM is the strongest predictor of makes. Shorter players especially rely on full extension to get necessary arc.
github.com/colbymorris08/wnb…
Interesting cross-sport applications could be the influence of other distal kinetic chain drivers on 'command' and optimal arc/angle such as knee extension in a soccer kick and wrist extension in the throw. Maybe looseness and accessing full ROM at this stage could be a strong predictor of motor control?
Don’t forget about that new change up!! >13” IVB separation from 4S in first scrimmage of the year…Going to be a fun year, cowboy up
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Recently I’ve been nerding out on cross-sport comparisons and the idea of ‘donor sports.’ Lots of ways to transplant ideas from one sport to another: First one I remember is 2 cleat football kickers and Rob Hill’s 2 shoes for pitchers idea.
Some things that have been around longer, like chess compared to basketball, could better inform basketball game strategy because they’ve been simulated, played out more often, and iterated on more.
I saw a nice alley-oop to Gary Payton II the other night and just couldn’t get the idea of it being a chess fork out of my head. The defender finds himself caught in a position where he is being attacked by two pieces, defends one, and gives up a basket to the other.
Best example of a 2 on 1 fast break is probably the king stuck in the middle, with two pawns advancing, King chooses to attack one but then has to leave the other to promote to a queen.
Then there are scenarios though when it’s not a fast break, all the pieces are on the board, you choose to double team, and then the sixth piece (the basket) is left unprotected and one piece can get to it.
The last video clip of Steph seems to resemble a remove the defender tactic to me, and so would an offensive pick.