Strike one has been the most important factor for pitchers seemingly since the beginning of time. So far in 2013 Major League Baseball pitchers have allowed a .224/.264/.341 slash line after a 0-1 count. Furthermore, pitchers have a strikeout to walk ratio of 6.36 after an 0-1 count. After 1-0

Matt Cain’s follow-up to his 2012 career year has not gone as planned. The twenty-eight-year-old righty currently sits in third atop the home-runs-allowed leaderboard, having given up 13 bombs on the season. At first glance, the eye-popping number in Cain’s peripherals is a career high home-run per fly ball of