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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Should you throw a sinker at Coors?
Interesting charts here:
This is non-Colorado pitchers, and we see they’ve decided to throw fewer sinkers at Coors:
But this is Colorado pitchers, and they’ve decided to throw more sinkers at Coors (though it could be that it’s not the same pitchers in the same proportion in the two groups).
And here’s the piece de resistance, comparing how pitches move at Coors compared to the league overall. The “eye” is where a pitch would be observed to be thrown if you were playing catch. So, a MLB fastball looks like it “rises” in a regular park in comparison, but at Coors, it moves “straighter”.
