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Pujols's sweet swing
Detailed and interesting analysis. I'd love to see something like this on Brian McCann's swing.
3 months ago
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Tommy Hanson Flight Paths
by VictorW on Jun 7, 2009 9:08 PM EDT
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Flight Paths for Mr Hanson's first big league start. He only threw one changeup so take that data with a grain of salt compared to the rest. Thanks to Harry Pavlidis for the template.
Here is the first base view. If you notice, Tommy Throws the fastball and slider down while throwing the curveball straight forward. Click the images for bigger versions.
He starts the slider a little more outside than the fastball and curve so it ends up crossing at about the same point as the fastball.
Here you can see the different release points and the massive hump of the curveball. It looks like he's purposely changing the release points of these pitches and it's probably tipping them. I wonder if he always does this or if it's just first start jitters.
Enjoy the pretty graphs.
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Beyond the Boxscore's Take on the McLouth Trade
Everybody wins!
6 months ago
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Numbers, numbers, numbers.
by VictorW on May 4, 2009 10:06 PM EDT
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Here’s a look at some of the more obscure numbers produced by our Braves. These numbers do not include today’s Braves/Mets game unless otherwise stated.
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Saturday Pitch f/x
by VictorW on Apr 13, 2009 6:55 PM EDT
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We'll focus on Mr. Kawakami and show what Mr. Moylan looks like when he's back in form.
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Jurrjens pitch f/x from Wednesday
by VictorW on Apr 10, 2009 5:03 PM EDT
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This post from Beyond the Boxscore just taught me how to get pitch f/x data from Brooks Baseball. The data tells you all kind of crazy things like the pitch location, release points, the velocity, and the pitch spin. I played around with the data from Jurrjens's start on Wednesday and here's some graphs.
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D-Lo pitch locations vs. the Phillies
Check it out. Away and away and away.
8 months ago
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BtBS Farm System Value Rankings
You can read about the methodology here. I'm very pleasantly surprised. Short answer is that those B level pitching prospects really add up.
9 months ago
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Swing Analysis Request: Brian McCann
by VictorW on Feb 4, 2009 4:42 PM EST
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Since you did Mr. Mauer I was wondering how the two best hitting catchers in baseball would compare (Wieters can join the party later). What amazes me about McCann is his outstanding bat control. McCann can hit for average and foul off pitches effectively, and on top of that, he can still slug home runs. It'll be interesting to see how his off season work regiment to lose weight affects things in 2009.
I'm e-mailing you a video of McCann's swing (CF camera view and a decent side view) and I'd greatly appreciate any analysis you could give on it.
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zomg strikeouts correlate with RBI. This data set is based on the last 3 seasons of data with a minimum PA of 500. There's 394 players on this plot. A cookie for anyone who can figure out who the red diamond and/or the green diamond is. It's pretty easy actually. In fact, if you can't do it without looking it up, I can no longer be your friend.
10 months ago
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