Interesting article about batters and ball-strike counts

[erik316wttn]

A journalist has broken down the MLB averages for av/slug/obp for each possible ball-strike count in an AB and came up with some interesting results. It's quite a good read.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/04/22/pitch.counts/index.html

Edited April 23, 2009 by erik316wttn

[TruffleShuffle]

most of it is pretty intuitive, but some of the two-strike results surprised me. i was very surprised by how poorly hitters do in a 2-2 count, and expected better results from the hitters in a full count. they do get on base a lot, not surprisingly, but the low BA and SLG shows that most hitters still swing defensively in a full count.

[Post Count Padder]

Pretty good read.

[Mephistopheles]

A journalist has broken down the MLB averages for av/slug/obp for each possible ball-strike count in an AB and came up with some interesting results. It's quite a good read.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/04/22/pitch.counts/index.html

 

Joe Posnanski's a sad disgrace to SI. The guys a total idiot.

[Electron Blue]

A journalist has broken down the MLB averages for av/slug/obp for each possible ball-strike count in an AB and came up with some interesting results. It's quite a good read.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/04/22/pitch.counts/index.html

 

Joe Posnanski's a sad disgrace to SI. The guys a total idiot.

 

attack the article not the journalist please.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Posnanski is quite possibly the best sportswriter in America.

[jersey cubs fan]

Posnanski is quite possibly the best sportswriter in America.

 

I think that says more about the industy than him. People constantly give Rick Reilly awards, but he's god awful. Posnanski has written some really stupid stuff on SI, and a couple other things that were surprisingly not stupid.

[Electron Blue]

This made the article worth reading in my mind:

 

3. Jim Thome, in his long career, has only put the ball in play 58 times on 3-0. He has hit SIXTEEN home runs. For the record, that's one homer per every 3.6 at-bats.

 

4. Or how about Mike Piazza. In his whole career he only put the ball in play FOUR TIMES on 3-0. That's all. Four times. Apparently nobody was throwing Piazza a good pitch 3-0. And that was a good idea: Two of them were home runs.

[Mephistopheles]

Posnanski is quite possibly the best sportswriter in America.

 

 

I can't stand him. He's so wrong I break my computer sometimes.