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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Out rate by location and hang time
I love anything with hang time because it makes it quite clear how determinant it is of the out rate. Dudek’s initial article way back in the first Hardball Times Annual with limited number of games is all that we needed to know how powerful hang time is. BIS is finally publishing snippets of it, which we see here courtesy of Mark Simon’s article at ESPN (with an appearance from Ben):
Base Hit Frequency
Balls Hit to Spot of Youngs Double
Hang Time
(Sec) Plays Hits BABIP
3.5 29 27 0.931
4.0 17 15 0.882
4.5 21 12 0.571
5.0 27 2 0.074
Base Hit Frequency
Balls hit to spot of Lillibridge catch
Hang Time
(sec) Plays Hits BABIP
2.0 21 21 1.000
2.5 61 58 0.951
3.0 49 41 0.837
3.5 32 15 0.469
4.0 19 3 0.158
4.5+ 77 0 0.000