What is the best pitch in baseball?
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ultxmxpx posted 5/21/2008 from theuniverseas.com [flag] |
You be the judge. (I'll say James Shields' change-up and Papelbon's fastball though.) There are in-depth stats for every pitcher and their pitches from last year. There are stats on speed and break, how often a pitch caused whiffs (vs lefties, vs righties, or overall), pitch selection in dozens of situations, how some stats changed month-to-month, and 100 more stats.
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The Other Side of the Pitch
Published 9/14/2007 by Joe Sheehan at Baseball Analysts
... other hitter I've looked at, pitchers appear to be somewhat varying their locations, although for Kendall, pitchers have thrown more low pitches than high pitches, which cues Kendall to look for more low pitches, and enhances his only strength.
Now with some idea of where pitchers throw to certain hitters and how the hitters respond, lets look at what pitchers throw different hitters. Building on my pitch filter, and some of the earlier work done by Dan Fox, ultxmxpx and Josh Kalk I went through my database and attempted to label every ...
