Archive for Batted Balls

Sportvision has released April’s HITf/x data in advance of the 2009 PITCHf/x Summit. Here’s a first pass through the data.

By June, pretty lucky.

Ex-baseball blogger, noted presidential historian, world class librarian, vehement Cleveland-hater, and longtime ShysterBall reader Bob Timmerman left a comment in ATH this morning about Orlando Hudson hitting for the cycle: You forget that Dodgers fans had almost been like the Jews in the desert traveling to the Promised Land with the cycle. It had been […]

A look at the relationship between how hard a pitcher throws and his ability to prevents hits on balls in play.

Examining home run rates and batting average on fly balls and line drives

Delving deeper into the effect of contact quality (or lack thereof)

Let’s see if it differs for different types of hitters.

If I were a millionaire philanthropist I’d pretty much become Batman, because — well, just because. Batman is cool, and if I have to explain it to you you’re beyond help. Of course, that gig is already taken, so I’d specialize: I’d only take cases and mete out black-caped vigilante justice to people who mess […]