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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Batted Balls: BIS v MLBAM
Failing that, a simple stopwatch could provide more accurate, quantifiable data than what we’re getting right now. And it is possible, to some extent, to review video of past games and get those measurements for players and seasons already passed.
In the meantime, consider this my sabermetric crisis of faith. It’s not that I don’t believe in the objective study of baseball. I’m just not convinced at this point that something dealing with batted ball data is, at least wholly, an objective study. And where does this leave us with existing metrics that utilize batted ball data? Again, I’m not sure. I can tell you I’m a lot less comfortable accepting their conclusions—even over a large number of seasons—than I was in the past.
This is exactly where I’m at. This is why in my WOWY, I rely much more on the identity of the pitchers and batters, than the classification of whatever someone thought was their FB, GB, LD. And, like Colin noted: stopwatch. I’m not sure how many years I’ve been banging that drum, but there’s so much truth in the easiest of technologies. Heck, “one mississippi” is about the earliest technology there is.
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