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Friday, March 05, 2010

Bradley in/out strike zone

By Tangotiger

Good stuff from Pizza over at ESPN (and presumably soon at BPro):

Bradley’s inability to make contact with balls out of the zone in 2008 meant that when he did hit a pitch, it was a better pitch and he was able to hit it harder.

Pizza shows part of the data here from Fangraphs. O-Swing is swings at pitches outside the strike zone. Z-Zwing is swings at pitches inside the strike zone. Lots of good stuff in there, and Pizza gives us a slice of Bradley.

(4) Comments • 2010/03/06 • Sabermetrics • Ball_Tracking • Batted_Ball

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