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Feb 19, 2021 · Back in the “old days” of baseball, maybe before the 1980s, just about any everyday baseball fan could measure a hitter’s or pitcher’s performance over a season or by career by the standard stats: For pitchers, it was earned run average (ERA), strikeouts (Ks) and wins and losses (“15-5”) For batters, it boiled down to batting ...
- Leading Off An Inning
- When You’Re in A Bad Count
- To Regain ‘Control’ of The At-Bat
- To Get A Breather
For games only on local broadcasts, the time between innings is just 2 minutes 5 seconds. That’s not a lot, especially if a guy leading off an inning is coming in from the outfield, or wants a quick word with a teammate or coach before stepping into the batter’s box and trying to hit a 98-mph fastball. “I’ve played with taking a timeout as soon as ...
I spoke with Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner in mid-March. At the time, he said he had yet to take a timeout in a game, but he did have thoughts. “I’ll probably save that time call for when I have two strikes,” he said. “I’ve talked through it with guys who played in the minor leagues last year, see what worked for them, what stood out. It’s inter...
The pitchers might be the ones throwing the baseball, but the best hitters in the game still feel like they’re in control of their time at the plate. The timeout could be used to regain that control, if the pitcher starts to gain the edge. “The more the hitter is in the driver’s seat as far as time goes,” Rangers first baseman Nathaniel Lowe said t...
After speaking with some hitters, it’s pretty clear that they don’t intend to use the timeout often. But every at-bat is a different animal. Some are quick, just a pitch or two. But some are mini-marathons, and after a couple of foul balls on max-effort swings, that’s probably a pretty good time to catch your breath. “In a long at-bat,” Arizona’s S...
- Ryan Fagan
May 15, 2018 · After all, a hitter is always trying to make contact, and you need lack of contact on strike three to get a strikeout. So logically, it makes perfect sense that the Contact% is a pure measure of strikeout ability, and K% would regress towards overall non-contact% over time. But it’s still nice to see the data match the theory with such accuracy.
May 26, 2014 · Advanced stats might seem like a complicated foreign language, but becoming conversational is actually very easy. Learn how to analyze a hitter's numbers.
- Neil Weinberg
Feb 22, 2019 · Meanwhile, hitters swing at 2-2 pitches more than 60% of the time for both pitch types. Part of the difference in swing rates is decided by how often pitches find the strike zone, and once again, there are significant differences by count.
May 22, 2020 · If you’re looking for one or two main statistics to project a hitter, I’d recommend using on-base percentage and isolated power. However, it’s clear from these results that in order to be as precise as possible with your projections, it’s better to dig deep into a hitter’s peripheral numbers.
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Sep 3, 2013 · On a very simple level, it makes sense to evaluate pitchers and hitters differently because they have different ways of impacting the game. Hitters get a small amount of non-consecutive at bats...
