tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446990813792736752.post1047223472964575155..comments2011-08-07T16:03:58.814-04:00Comments on Don't Bring In The Lefty: Sergio Mitre, Chad Gaudin, and the competition of not being tradedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446990813792736752.post-84098182417921898942010-01-13T11:14:53.701-05:002010-01-13T11:14:53.701-05:00Continued -
For now, we can only make inferences ...Continued - <br />For now, we can only make inferences based on the data we have. If I noticed that there were an unusual amount of pitches high in the strikezone for Mitre, we would have something to go off of. I didn't find that this was the case. Also, his sinker had a lot of spin movement, which means that it wasn't "flat." Not that these two things alone make a good pitcher, obviously, and there are countless other ways to analyze a pitcher. Though I do think that those two things are important.Lucas Apostolerishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15866892828302392185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446990813792736752.post-57033766096938314292010-01-13T11:00:53.244-05:002010-01-13T11:00:53.244-05:00http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071002&a...http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071002&content_id=2245402&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb<br />This is a pretty old article, from October 2007, but it gives a pretty good idea of how the data is picked up. If I find any other good primers, I'll post them.<br />I know less about HITf/x, but I'm pretty sure that it's supposed to be equipped with the same tools as PITCHf/x and would track the outgoing pitch as opposed to the incoming pitch. It should explain a lot of things about "how hard" certain pitches are hit, and until it is more easily accessible, there are going to be holes in these sorts of analyses.Lucas Apostolerishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15866892828302392185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446990813792736752.post-49181228150594757352010-01-13T06:24:46.626-05:002010-01-13T06:24:46.626-05:00Could you post a link to resources about Pitchf/x ...Could you post a link to resources about Pitchf/x please. I'm interested in their methodology - actually how they obtain their results. <br />There's a big difference between a hard hit grounder that will get through the infield unless it's hit right at someone and a Mariano broken bat dribbler.NHAPhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13916405686406776411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446990813792736752.post-17731172597153229762010-01-12T21:12:30.194-05:002010-01-12T21:12:30.194-05:00Unfortunately, no. I do agree completely that it ...Unfortunately, no. I do agree completely that it would be very important to see how hard the ball is being hit. HITf/x is getting worked out behind the scenes, and we should see some batted ball data (elevation angle, speed off bat, travel distance for each ball in play) before long. For now, all we have are ground balls and line drives. Mitre's line drive rate in 2009 was 18.2%, near the MLB average of about 19%.Lucas Apostolerishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15866892828302392185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2446990813792736752.post-37282638579506163602010-01-12T06:51:55.772-05:002010-01-12T06:51:55.772-05:00Is there a statistic which differentiates hard-hit...Is there a statistic which differentiates hard-hit ground balls from routine or slowly-hit ground balls? Regarding Mitre, if there are a lot of hard-hit ground balls, it might not be a good thing.NHAPhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13916405686406776411noreply@blogger.com