Showing posts with label hitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hitting. Show all posts
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Can Billy Hamilton's Legs Make Up for his Bat?

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Photo Credit: Keith Allison Billy Hamilton is having one of the strangest seasons I've ever seen.  He has been absolutely terrible ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

A Comparison of BIS Quality of Contact to StatCast Batted Ball Velocity

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Yesterday, I showed that StatCast's Batted Ball Velocity data is correlated, at least, to performance statistics like ISO and HR/FB rate...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Batted Ball Velocity Data Predicts Performance

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Jay Bruce leads the Reds with 92 mph Batted Ball Velocity, but his ISO and HR/FB rates a just middle of the pack. Photo credit: Trev Sta...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

The Misery of Jay Bruce

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I hadn't looked at FanGraphs' Cincinnati Reds team page lately .  Too painful.  But I popped over there tonight to have a look.  Aft...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Using Sound to Scout Players

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Sorry for my absence.  Part of it is that the Reds have frankly been rather hard to watch over the past month.  But the issue is that my fam...
Saturday, June 07, 2014

Reprints: How Hitting Statistics Explain Runs Scored

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This week in the SABR101x course, we're covering hitting statistics.  The lesson was very similar to an article I wrote 6 years ago on t...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Is Todd Frazier Seeing More Pitches?

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John Fay penned a nice profile on Todd Frazier yesterday for the Enquirer.  In it was this little nugget from Todd: Frazier credited hitt...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Should Billy Hamilton swing less?

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Embedded in my Rockies series preview at Red Reporter yesterday was this bit on Billy Hamilton.  I thought it was an interesting little digr...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Jay Bruce Changed His Approach Last Year

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Photo credit: Trev Stair On the heels of yesterday's (rather inconclusive ) post about Matt Adams , I decided to take a closer look ...