Ramirez is the main problem.

[Guest]

My thoughts on Aramis' troubles:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Articles/ArticleText.php?ArticleID=117

Nice article.

 

I'm liking not being a middleman anymore!

[Guest]

My thoughts on Aramis' troubles:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Articles/ArticleText.php?ArticleID=117

Nice article.

 

I'm liking not being a middleman anymore!

I'm liking the new system as well.

[oldstyle81]

My thoughts on Aramis' troubles:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Articles/ArticleText.php?ArticleID=117

 

very good article, too bad people will ignore it completely because they dont see anything from good contact

[Guest]

My thoughts on Aramis' troubles:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Articles/ArticleText.php?ArticleID=117

Nice article.

 

I'm liking not being a middleman anymore!

I'm liking the new system as well.

I see you got the graphics problem resolved. Looks nice.

 

 

I've had about no time the past couple weeks to work on our other project. I'll have a little time this weekend, but won't have enough time to make real progress for another couple weeks.

 

On the other hand, I've been taking advantage of airplane time to learn how to put a really sweet Ajax front end on it. I can't wait to mess around with it.

[Guest]

My thoughts on Aramis' troubles:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Articles/ArticleText.php?ArticleID=117

Nice article.

 

I'm liking not being a middleman anymore!

I'm liking the new system as well.

I've had about no time the past couple weeks to work on our other project. I'll have a little time this weekend, but won't have enough time to make real progress for another couple weeks.

 

On the other hand, I've been taking advantage of airplane time to learn how to put a really sweet Ajax front end on it. I can't wait to mess around with it.

That's probably a good thing, as there have been some (minor) changes in the way MLB stores the data. Nothing too major, but I'll have to send you a few revised parsing scripts when I have the time to tweak them all. (Only one of the tables will be altered, though, and even then it's actually just to add a field that wasn't available before.) I'm also planning on creating some updater scripts that will merely append new data to the tables instead of rebuilding them from scratch each time. It wasn't a big deal when there were only a couple weeks worth of games, but by the time each team in five different leagues has played 100+ games it's silly to spend 20 minutes of CPU time a day reapeating work you've already done.

 

I also think I'll do some storage-space optimization at some point, as right now we're downloading multiple copies of each player's bio/roster files, and that's not needed anymore since MLB changed the data format. Reducing it down to one copy per player will probably cut the storage requirements for the source XML files in half.

 

Anway, I digress. This thread is supposed to be about ARam, not cool new features soon to be added to the site!

[frostwyrm]

I'd cut Aramis some slack on his slow arthritic "running" if he ever got his legs close to the size and muscularity of a typical power hitter's. Hell, I'd be happy if his legs looked better than a typical accountant's.

[rocket]

Nice article Bob. Do you think it's possible to do the same thing with Jacque Jones and Juan Pierre, to compare their bad starts with Aramis's?

[Pinktermite]

By the way, you guys are smarter cub fans than I, but with Neifi and Jacque a major part of this lineup, our goose is cooked. Look at the bright side, at least it took less than five years to lose Jose Macias.

[cheapseats]

My thoughts on Aramis' troubles:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Articles/ArticleText.php?ArticleID=117

 

Great article. Very articulate and informative.

[Big Fergie J]

My thoughts on Aramis' troubles:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/Articles/ArticleText.php?ArticleID=117

 

Great article.

 

It certainly makes my attempt to criticize Ramirez earlier in this thread look quite....ummm...errr...feeble.

 

Thanks.

[jjgman21]

a nice study, but I think it's crazy to say those spray charts show anything other than Aramis is pull happy. what would be particularly enlightening, and demonstrate what I am talking about, is comparing those charts to what he has down in past years. I also find it a little hard to believe that Aramis trying to pull more than half the pitches on the outter third is "good news."

 

he's hitting in some tough luck, but last night I turned on the game precisely at the time he almost got run out of the game for arguing a strike call, when the pitch was right down the middle of the plate. he followed up that AB with a one pitch AB, popping up a shoe high sinker, to lead off the inning no less.

 

please stop making excuses for Aramis. he's hit in some tough luck, but he's not doing the things he has done in the past to make him successful. he's thinking about pulling the ball and hitting 500 foot, 6 run homers.

[Jon]

a nice study, but I think it's crazy to say those spray charts show anything other than Aramis is pull happy. what would be particularly enlightening, and demonstrate what I am talking about, is comparing those charts to what he has down in past years. I also find it a little hard to believe that Aramis trying to pull more than half the pitches on the outter third is "good news."

 

he's hitting in some tough luck, but last night I turned on the game precisely at the time he almost got run out of the game for arguing a strike call, when the pitch was right down the middle of the plate. he followed up that AB with a one pitch AB, popping up a shoe high sinker, to lead off the inning no less.

 

please stop making excuses for Aramis. he's hit in some tough luck, but he's not doing the things he has done in the past to make him successful. he's thinking about pulling the ball and hitting 500 foot, 6 run homers.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/stats/individual_player_hitting_chart.jsp?c_id=mlb&playerID=133380&statType=1

 

I don't really see much of a difference.

[Soul]

a nice study, but I think it's crazy to say those spray charts show anything other than Aramis is pull happy. what would be particularly enlightening, and demonstrate what I am talking about, is comparing those charts to what he has down in past years. I also find it a little hard to believe that Aramis trying to pull more than half the pitches on the outter third is "good news."

 

he's hitting in some tough luck, but last night I turned on the game precisely at the time he almost got run out of the game for arguing a strike call, when the pitch was right down the middle of the plate. he followed up that AB with a one pitch AB, popping up a shoe high sinker, to lead off the inning no less.

 

please stop making excuses for Aramis. he's hit in some tough luck, but he's not doing the things he has done in the past to make him successful. he's thinking about pulling the ball and hitting 500 foot, 6 run homers.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/stats/individual_player_hitting_chart.jsp?c_id=mlb&playerID=133380&statType=1

 

I don't really see much of a difference.

 

Ouch. Looks like when he does try to go to the opposite field, he's 0fer.

 

April is done now, so some of these guys need to get over the early season slumps and start producing.

[CubinNY]

a nice study, but I think it's crazy to say those spray charts show anything other than Aramis is pull happy. what would be particularly enlightening, and demonstrate what I am talking about, is comparing those charts to what he has down in past years. I also find it a little hard to believe that Aramis trying to pull more than half the pitches on the outter third is "good news."

 

he's hitting in some tough luck, but last night I turned on the game precisely at the time he almost got run out of the game for arguing a strike call, when the pitch was right down the middle of the plate. he followed up that AB with a one pitch AB, popping up a shoe high sinker, to lead off the inning no less.

 

please stop making excuses for Aramis. he's hit in some tough luck, but he's not doing the things he has done in the past to make him successful. he's thinking about pulling the ball and hitting 500 foot, 6 run homers.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/stats/individual_player_hitting_chart.jsp?c_id=mlb&playerID=133380&statType=1

 

I don't really see much of a difference.

 

Exactly. Aramis has always been a dead pull hitter.

 

I'm glad he is taking more walks

[USSoccer]

He's going to begin to heat up very soon. California should be good to him. I'll bet by the time we're done with this trip, his BA will be about 60 points higher.

[BigbadB]

Except for the fact that the Marine layer has been as much as 2 miles thick directly over the ball park. They call it "May Gray". If he's going to put 60+ percentage points on his average, everything he hits will need to be hard and line drives.

 

Of all the places for a team that can't score runs to go, San Diego is the worst. This could be a very long, long weekend.

[USSoccer]

Except for the fact that the Marine layer has been as much as 2 miles thick directly over the ball park. They call it "May Gray". If he's going to put 60+ percentage points on his average, everything he hits will need to be hard and line drives.

 

Of all the places for a team that can't score runs to go, San Diego is the worst. This could be a very long, long weekend.

 

He has been hitting his share of line drives. They've just found defenders.

[jjgman21]

I've been trying all morning to get the hit charts at the official website to work for me, without success.

 

another approach I thought of to determine where Aramis hits the ball was a simple internet search for "aramis ramirez 'all fields'" and "aramis ramirez 'pull hitter'"

 

try for yourself and see what kind of results you get.

 

Aramis found success by hitting the ball to all-fields, thus getting good pitches on the inside that he can drive. he's certainly not a 'dead pull hitter,' and he never has been until April 2006.

[Guest]

a nice study, but I think it's crazy to say those spray charts show anything other than Aramis is pull happy.

He is pulling most of his pitches, but the chart in the link JMD provided showed that's normal for Aramis. He'll pull most pitches and the vast majority of his hits will be to left side of center field.

 

Besides, while he has yet to get a hit to the opposite field he's still sending balls that way. 24 out of his balls in play (through May 5th's game) were to the right side of the line between home plate and second base, or 34%. That's not too far behind the league average for right-handed hitters which stands at about 40%, and as I pointed out earlier it's not uncommon for power hitters to pull the ball far more often than slap-hitting speedsters.

[cheapseats]

 

another approach I thought of to determine where Aramis hits the ball was a simple internet search for "aramis ramirez 'all fields'" and "aramis ramirez 'pull hitter'"

 

 

The charts on MLB show that most of his hits are to left field, and it's been that way for years. The majority of his hits are to left field, and the majority of his outs are to right.

 

His power is certainly to left. Rarely does he hit a homerun to the opposite way.

 

I know what the ESPN and Fox scouting reports say, but the charts clearly show that most of his success comes when he pulls the ball.