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Plate Approaches for Sandoval and Lewis

Red = Non-Swings
Green = Swings

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Very nice work. The only think that would help further would be to see the fates of those swings. I’m curious as to how Lewis fares on the balls that he swings at that are out of the zone (is his power low and away). Also, does Pablo really swing at the inside and outside pitch, or does he only swing at inside or outside pitches and the data is skewed because he is a switch hitter?

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by Speedforthewin on Sep 27, 2009 7:50 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

SPAM

But tasty spam. It seems (to me anyway) that when Fred goes out of the zone, he’s looking to smack it the other way.

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by baetown415 on Sep 27, 2009 8:57 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I agree

Ive seen him hit that low outside ball to left a couple times

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by GrahamCrakalaka on Sep 27, 2009 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I’ll get around to plotting some swing results later tonight.

Here’s Molina’s plot

You can tell that it’s a different shape from Sandoval’s swing zone because Molina is a right-handed batter only. Looks to really like the down and away pitches.

by xanthan on Sep 28, 2009 5:47 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

LOL balls at 0 feet.

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by howtheyscored on Sep 28, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

wait what direction is this going

where is inside and where is outside?

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by wjackalope on Sep 29, 2009 8:08 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Think of it as if you were sitting behind the plate — ie: catcher’s POV.

Negative numbers on the x-axis are where RHB’s stand. Positive numbers are where LHB’s stand.

by xanthan on Sep 29, 2009 8:16 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

got it

and that doesn’t change depending on if the batter is RH or LH

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by wjackalope on Sep 29, 2009 8:19 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

oh

and are the numbers an actual unit of measure?

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by wjackalope on Sep 29, 2009 8:20 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

and that doesn’t change depending on if the batter is RH or LH

Nope, it’s always the same for this type of plot.

and are the numbers an actual unit of measure?

Both axises are in ft.

by xanthan on Sep 29, 2009 8:42 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

so Benjie

swings at pitches literally two feet off the outside corner

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by wjackalope on Sep 29, 2009 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

not clear

it is always the catcher’s point of view, right?
so Fred swings at lots of pitches just outside, and gets lots of his hits on them, right?

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by foothillsfan on Sep 29, 2009 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

btw, nice work, x man

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by foothillsfan on Sep 29, 2009 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Blood spatter.

What period of time do these cover? All the pitches in a month? Looks like too few to be a season (although maybe so for poor Fred).

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by Mayor of 311 on Sep 28, 2009 9:34 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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by xanthan on Sep 28, 2009 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Looks like too few to be a season

LOL FRED

:-(

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by baetown415 on Sep 28, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Doesn’t look that few to me, considering that they (especially fred) see many more pitches in the zone than out of the zone.

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by raisingcain on Sep 28, 2009 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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