Javier Baez's Plate Discipline (Or Lack Thereof)

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I posted a new article to the front page about Javy's plate discipline. It's really long...

[Tim]

I just wanted to once again suggest that if people aren't reading those front page articles from Duke, you're missing out.

[Clem Fandango]

Good stuff, Duke. Nicely done!

[BigSlick]

Thanks, Duke, these posts have been fantastic and illuminating. So much to chew on.

 

With Javy I feel like I can second your anecdotal evidence on him actually having something like an approach this year. (However simple and frustrating it can be at times) I'm thinking: what's the ceiling of a type of hitter Javy can be? And I'm thinking someone like Alfonso Soriano (maybe I'm reaching for a past Cub I'm most familiar with), who was a hacker, but who could get enough plate coverage that at-bats weren't just complete guessing games unless the pitcher threw a mistake. He was a mistake hitter, without a doubt, but he could reach out and foul off most balls out of the zone that he never got his K rate so high he wasn't a useful player. And, like Javy, he never took anything off his swing and had prodigious power.

 

Of course maybe that kind of ability to make contact on pitches in and out of the zone isn't something that can be taught. But Javy has already made significant, significant progress in reaching those pitches.

 

We shall see, every Baez is an adventure, and worth watching.

[UMFan83]

How do we do a better job of promoting these articles? I would be happy to post to twitter for visibility but it might be nice to use our "official" NSBB twitter to promote the article with 3-4 tweets over a 2 day period, and have NSBB'ers on twitter retweet.

 

It seems like we've done articles in the past for a few weeks then everyone loses interest and stops writing, I think partially because of little to no feedback as well as only writing for a small group of individuals that already read posts. The recent posts by Duke have been really good, and I'd like them to keep going and for more people to see them.

[davell]

I agree, these are excellent articles, BP quality type analysis.

 

As for the results of this analysis, I think it lines up with the Law/Parks scouting reports from when Javy was in the lower levels. He's going to be a project, if he hits his ceiling it will be very late. But that he does enough things well that he's very useful until then. I take what he's done as progress and with the way we're set up, we have every opportunity to wait things out and see if he can develop into a superstar in his mid to late 20's.

[Tim]

How do we do a better job of promoting these articles? I would be happy to post to twitter for visibility but it might be nice to use our "official" NSBB twitter to promote the article with 3-4 tweets over a 2 day period, and have NSBB'ers on twitter retweet.

 

It seems like we've done articles in the past for a few weeks then everyone loses interest and stops writing, I think partially because of little to no feedback as well as only writing for a small group of individuals that already read posts. The recent posts by Duke have been really good, and I'd like them to keep going and for more people to see them.

I'm open to suggestions on how to promote them better. Duke posted a link to one on Reddit that got a bunch of new traffic to take a look. I've tried that in the past and haven't had as much success. Goony is doing a great job with the twitter account, but I did not get much traffic at all when I posted links to the articles there. I guess it needs to be posted in such a way as to get it retweeted by someone with a bigger following.

 

The other thing that would be huge is to build a critical mass of writers. If there are several new, high quality articles there on a daily basis, more people will come. I am once again looking for writers!

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Yeah, my brother posted the Addison Russell article on reddit after I told him I wrote a few things. It generated some traffic to it, but it doesn't appear anyone poked around at anything else. If we were to generate some more traffic, I cold start posting a little more frequently about some of the picayune stuff we argue about on here all day. As for those heavily-researched longform pieces, I'm probably only good for one twice a week or so -- since I have to, you know, work and stuff.

[weis21]

As for those heavily-researched longform pieces, I'm probably only good for one twice a week or so -- since I have to, you know, work and stuff.

[RammyFanny]

I have like 1800 followers on Twitter, most of them Cubs fans because I used to follow the people who retweeted those followback things (which I know everyone hates). I'll throw it out there.

[Tim]

I have like 1800 followers on Twitter, most of them Cubs fans because I used to follow the people who retweeted those followback things (which I know everyone hates). I'll throw it out there.

\:D/ :good:

[Clem Fandango]

I've never made infographics before, but I bet it would be fun to try. Anyone got a crazy Cubs statistic that would look good in graphical form?

[David]

I've never made infographics before, but I bet it would be fun to try. Anyone got a crazy Cubs statistic that would look good in graphical form?

 

Uh, all of them?

[Tracer Bullet]

I've never made infographics before, but I bet it would be fun to try. Anyone got a crazy Cubs statistic that would look good in graphical form?

 

SP ERA seems like a candidate b/c it's just so historically ridiculous.

[David]

I've never made infographics before, but I bet it would be fun to try. Anyone got a crazy Cubs statistic that would look good in graphical form?

 

SP ERA seems like a candidate b/c it's just so historically ridiculous.

 

run differential (and how they are practically lapping the field in it), the rotation's WHIP, the KB WAR vs the entirety of the rest of the 2013 draft, the cubs currently underperforming their pythag and base runs, their odds to win the division in early june, the record/pace since august of last year

Edited June 9, 2016 by David

[Andy]

There was a spectacular infographic posted here not long ago about our RD versus every other team in baseball history to this point.

[minnesotacubsfan]

What's the biggest RD in mlb history?

[Wilson A2000]

How do we do a better job of promoting these articles? I would be happy to post to twitter for visibility but it might be nice to use our "official" NSBB twitter to promote the article with 3-4 tweets over a 2 day period, and have NSBB'ers on twitter retweet.

 

It seems like we've done articles in the past for a few weeks then everyone loses interest and stops writing, I think partially because of little to no feedback as well as only writing for a small group of individuals that already read posts. The recent posts by Duke have been really good, and I'd like them to keep going and for more people to see them.

 

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[Bull]

What's the biggest RD in mlb history?

'39 Yankees - 411.