Covering the plate: Pujols vs Patterson

[JGalt73]

Interesting mapping of plate coverage... looking at how much better (or worse) than league average hitters are at turning pitches in a specific location into hits:

 

The good:

http://www.fangraphs.com/custom%20graphs/Albert%20Pujols%20vs%20League.png

 

 

and the Ugly:

http://www.fangraphs.com/custom%20graphs/Corey%20Patterson%20vs%20League.png

[radarluv1]

could this mean pujols is a better hitter?

[Roast]

could this mean pujols is a better hitter?

 

Unpossible.

[Omar]

Patterson's looks like a zorro sign... sorta.

[fallingpieces]

all i really see is fish

[Brian]

looks like a schooner to me

[SouthSideRyan]

looks like a schooner to me

 

You dumb bas###. It's not a schooner, it's a sailboat.

[Andy]

I'm shocked. I've believed for so long that CPatt was vastly superior to Poo Holes. I'm crushed right now.

[Marco4]

Yipe. Its the comparison of pink areas that got me.

[baseball7897]

You cannot compare Pujols to Patterson. Its like comparing apples to oranges.

[Bull]

You cannot compare Pujols to Patterson. Its like comparing apples to oranges.

 

no, its like camparing apples to apples that before they were ripe looked really good and then before they got a chance to ripen were ripped from the vine, were told for 2 solid years that the WERE oranges and then were smashed between the but cheeks of a fat hairy guy named Bubba and then left out in the sun to rot.

[Sterling30]

Pujols better than Patterson? You coulda knocked me over with a feather!

[Knyption]

Haha, patterson can't even hit balls straight down the middle according to that pic.

[FergieJ31]

I'm astonished Pujols' has as much blue as it does.

[CubinNY]

Look at the upper 1/3 of Patterson's graph.

 

Not only is he well below league average at hitting the ball, but that is where he strikes out frequently.

 

I like these graphs.

[CarolinaCubFan]

I'd like to see these charts on D. Lee. 2005 and a couple years back, I'd like to see if he did fix the whole in his swing.

[RockTheIvy]

looks like a schooner to me

 

You dumb bas###. It's not a schooner, it's a sailboat.

 

A schooner is a sailboat, stupidhead.

 

YOU KNOW WHAT?!

[Marco4]

I'd like to see these charts on D. Lee. 2005 and a couple years back, I'd like to see if he did fix the whole in his swing.

 

That was what I was thinking about as I looked at them, actually.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Haha, patterson can't even hit balls straight down the middle according to that pic.

 

thats what struck me, a big ole purple spot RIGHT in the middle of the strike zone...not good....

[Gunned]

Reminds me of Patterson's hot/cold zones during MLB Gamecasts. It looked like the Northeast during the election.

[AR-Baseball-Fan]

We should have traded Patterson for Pujols before anyone saw this information. :)

[TheDude]

You cannot compare Pujols to Patterson. Its like comparing apples to oranges.

 

no, its like camparing apples to apples that before they were ripe looked really good and then before they got a chance to ripen were ripped from the vine, were told for 2 solid years that the WERE oranges and then were smashed between the but cheeks of a fat hairy guy named Bubba and then left out in the sun to rot.

 

I'd wouldn't eat any apples that grew on vines personally.

[CoolHandLuke]

Look at the upper 1/3 of Patterson's graph.

 

Not only is he well below league average at hitting the ball, but that is where he strikes out frequently.

 

I like these graphs.

 

We must be looking at different upper thirds then, because on the graph I am looking at he is just about league average if not slightly above in most of the upper third.

[CubinNY]

Look at the upper 1/3 of Patterson's graph.

 

Not only is he well below league average at hitting the ball, but that is where he strikes out frequently.

 

I like these graphs.

 

We must be looking at different upper thirds then, because on the graph I am looking at he is just about league average if not slightly above in most of the upper third.

 

The only box that matters is the one right in the middle. That is the strike zone.