Pitcher Whisperer
A conversational scout that lets you ask 'how does this starter look tonight?' and get a narrated breakdown of recent velocity, pitch mix, and the specific batters who give him trouble.
Diehard MLB fans who watch every start and want richer commentary than box scores
- Voice-style recap of each starter's last three outings with key pitch movement changes
- Ask 'who scares him?' and get the three batters with the best historical matchup
- Side-by-side comparison of the two starters' splitter/cutter effectiveness
- Saves a personal 'watch list' of pitchers and pings you before their next start
Articles like the Trevor Rogers vs Reds piece show fans crave granular pitcher context beyond the box score, and current broadcasts don't deliver it fast enough.
Sabermetric diehards are a real but narrow slice of MLB fans; Statcast tools (Baseball Savant, PitchQuery) and active Kaggle datasets confirm an engaged analytics community, but the 'asks a conversational scout nightly' behavior isn't yet a proven habit.Baseball Pitch Data & Statcast Analytics ↗MLB Statcast + Bat Tracking (2024-2025) - Kaggle ↗
Baseball Savant, FanGraphs, and PitchQuery all surface Statcast pitch data, but none offers a conversational 'ask about a starter tonight' interface; MLB's own Gemini work targets broadcast/team use, leaving a consumer conversational gap.Baseball Savant - Statcast Game Feed & Advanced Metrics ↗AI at Bat: How MLB is surfacing stats faster with AI - Google Cloud ↗
FanGraphs proves diehards pay — $15/month or $80/year for premium stats — but that price ceiling is well-established and LLM inference costs will compress margins; ad/subscription hybrid is realistic but not a windfall.FanGraphs Membership ↗FanGraphs Baseball | Baseball Statistics and Analysis ↗
Sabermetrics/Statcast adoption has compounded since 2015 and Statcast data is contractually entrenched; MLB fan base and fantasy market (Razzball, etc.) keep demand for pitcher analytics durable across seasons.Razzball 2026 Fantasy Baseball Subscriptions ↗Major League Baseball Statcast, Visuals & Advanced Metrics | MLB.com ↗
Public pybaseball/Statcast feeds and 1.4M+ row Kaggle datasets make a starter-scoped MVP buildable in weeks; conversational LLM infra is commodified, though prompt grounding and per-query cost discipline matter.MLB Statcast + Bat Tracking (2024-2025) - Kaggle ↗AI at Bat: How MLB is surfacing stats faster with AI - Google Cloud ↗