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- Ground balls go for hits more often than fly balls but fly balls go for extra bases much more often when they do drop in for hits. In other words, if you’re a fly ball pitcher, you can usually sustain a below average BABIP, but you might get tagged for a few extra doubles, triples, and homers as a result.
library.fangraphs.com/which-is-better-a-ground-ball-pitcher-or-a-fly-ball-pitcher/Which is Better? A Ground Ball Pitcher or a Fly Ball Pitcher
Dec 12, 2014 · We know that ground balls generally have a lower run value than fly balls despite their higher BABIP, and in general, pitchers who throw more ground balls perform better overall. But it’s...
- Neil Weinberg
Jun 18, 2019 · First things first: the home run explosion is affecting fly-ballers more than ground-ballers. Indeed, among the Top 20 ground-ballers their HR/9 is actually down, from 1.04 in 2018 to .93 this...
- Gene Mccaffrey
- Contributor
May 16, 2017 · The resulting trend toward fly balls has significantly improved a handful of hitters, helping them achieve far better results than when they slapped more grounders. Some observers have even...
- Fly Ball Contact Management
- Comparing High- and Low-Groundball Pitchers
- Closing Thoughts
The key here lies in two other pitching outcomes that appear to be intertwined with ground balls: pop-ups and home runs. Pop-ups are nearly as good as strikeouts, in that they are almost always an automatic out. While inducing pop-ups appears to be a repeatable skill (IFFB% has a year-to-year correlation of 0.37), it is not nearly as stable as stri...
However, these correlations are fairly small. What happens if we look at groundball pitchers? To do this, I looked at the 80 pitchers who threw at least 600 innings between 2010 and 2014. These pitchers had an average groundball rate of 45.3 percent, with a standard deviation of 5.4 percent. So, I looked at pitchers who were at least one standard d...
So, are ground balls good? Of course they are! However, this fact has led to a strong bias toward groundball pitchers (and against their flyball counterparts) in the baseball analytics community. Just because a ground ball in itself is a good outcome for a pitcher, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we should place a significant value on pitchers who...
Mar 14, 2018 · Fly ball pitchers throw slightly more off-speed pitches — namely, sliders and change-ups — but not so much more often to make it noteworthy. Rather, fly ball pitchers tend to rely...
- Alex Chamberlain
Feb 17, 2010 · “Ground ball pitchers” generally have grounder rates over 50%, while “fly ball pitchers” have fly ball rates above (or approaching) 40%. Things to Remember: Line drives are death to...
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May 11, 2007 · In today’s Hardball Times, Matthew Carruth did an analysis on extreme groundball pitchers and how they do not really give up more home runs-per-fly ball (HR/FB) than your typical pitcher.
