Archive for Batted Balls

Scratching the surface of being able to accurately gauge whether a batted ball’s characteristics should make it a hit or an out.

What does it take to be a good worm burner?

Finding the answer is as evasive as ever.

Having more and better data will increase the skills of our seers.

Using Statcast data to study the flight of a baseball.

What hitters did, what they should have done, and how some over- or under-achieved.

What pitch type can be hit the farthest, and how is that accomplished?

Let’s apply defense independent statistics to batters!

Is the Rogers Centre’s new turf unfriendly to ground balls?

We have neat new statistics. Now we have to figure out what they they mean — and don’t mean.