Statistically Speaking: Fast: Tales of the changeup: an analysis of Johan Santana
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Statistically Speaking: Fast: Tales of the changeup: an analysis of Johan Santana You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever...not with the latest amazing analysis from Mike Fast to tide you over! I looked at the 11 home-run balls off Santana for which we have PITCHf/x data, and I couldn’t detect any useful patterns. They were mostly hit off pitches up and over the plate, but that doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Looking at the HitTracker data, he wasn’t burned by many short home runs barely sneaking over the fence, so he wasn’t unlucky in that regard, at ...
In defense of the RBI
Breaking Balls —
... I want to say is that the arguments that get the most attention (such as the challenge to the hegemony of batting average as the measurement of hitting success) do not accurately reflect the purpose of the movement. I believe that the goal of any baseball analyst should be to examine the immense amount of data that we have in order to better understand the game of baseball. (There is also a groundbreaking R&D sub-goal which is to pioneer the use of new sources of data, such as PitchfX.) With an eye toward more truly understanding the game, completely discarding wins or ...
AaronGleeman.com — ... Last but definitely not least, Mike Fast over at Statistically Speaking recently posted a fascinatingly unique breakdown of Santana's pitching that mixes scouting and stats in amazing detail. ...
Santana and the Changeup
Dan Agonistes —
... It turns out that Mike Fast did a nice analysis of Santana back in January and as you would imagine found essentially the same thing albeit in much more detail. From a start by start basis the mix of Santana pitches in 10 of his starts and his All-Star appearance last season can be seen below. ...
What’s wrong with Johan Santana?
THT Fantasy Focus —
... clump of each pitch amended to the left side of each cluster. Seems like the AL scout quoted above was onto something as far as the four-seamer and change-up go. As far as the two-seamer and slider go, not so much, although most scouting reports I've read don't seem to acknowledge the two-seamer (instead just saying he throws a fastball). This is understandable because last year the two weren't easy to distinguish between. I only realized Santana threw two fastballs after reading a Mike Fast piece over the off-season and an ...
