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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Chipper Jones, sabermetrician
This is a followup to Sciambi’s great article:
“There are certain pitchers, quite frankly, that you can’t get behind,” Jones said. “You want to be aggressive and the first hittable fastball that you get is the pitch you want to put in play. Because they’ll bury you if they get ahead of you. You can’t let them do that.
“There are a handful of really good statistics, but once you start getting into the really detailed ones, you’re getting pretty anal. It’s interesting stuff, but it has very little to do with the impact or outcome of just one at-bat or game.”
This is a lesson for you aspiring saberists: It is NOT the job of a saberist to look at data and tell one of the greatest hitters of our generation that what he’s doing is wrong on the first pitch of an at bat. It IS the job of a saberist to understand WHY one of the greatest hitters of our generation swings as much as he does on the first pitch of an at bat. And Chipper has it already figured out.
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