Some More Stuff Abount Javy

[Aaron_Kennelly]

I wrote a little more about Javy, mainly about him putting too many balls in play on pitches out of the zone.

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/articles/cubs-articles/27-an-addendum-to-my-critique-of-javier-baez

[davell]

Duke can write his horsefeathering ass off. Thank you for doing these articles.

[Tim]

Fabulous, as always. I tweeted it out there. Hopefully we can get some traffic.

[Tim]

I raised a question in the comments:

 

An interesting question for this analysis on Javy...

 

He actually attempts to bunt reasonably often. How is that impacting both his BABIP and his power numbers on balls in play. I haven't seen a way to isolate that in statcast yet other than to assume that anything in play that doesn't travel at least 60 feet or so is a bunt.

[weis21]

So...how long until we lose Duke to Fangraphs or some other baseball publication/site?

 

Not sure I have specifically said it, so love love love the articles, Duke.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Apparently Javy is leading the league by a wide margin with the lowest percentage of balls in play coming on pitches in the zone.

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/my-current-favorite-javier-baez-statistic/