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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Heat zones
By Tangotiger, 11:35 AM
Cool graph on where pitches go in the strike zone.
Hat tip: Colin.
#2 2008/02/22 @ 11:20 AM
Wonderful presentation!
What I think would be very useful is the use of 2x2 tables for called strike/ball and hit/bip out, by handedness of batter and pitcher, of course.
For example:
+---------------+---------------+
| called strike | ball |
|---------------+---------------+
| ball | called strike |
+---------------+---------------+
and
+---------------+---------------+
| bip hit | bip out |
|---------------+---------------+
| bip out | bip hit |
+---------------+---------------+
This would alway easy comparison of pitches left/right and up/down.
#3 ElBonte 2008/02/22 @ 11:47 AM
Tango,
What perspective are the images you linked to shown from? Is it the pitcher or catcher’s view? I assume the units on the axes are in feet; is that correct?
#4 Tangotiger 2008/02/22 @ 11:55 AM
I asked Jonathan that very question, and his reply:
The perspective is from the catcher. And L/R is lefty pitcher right batter.
He’s also writing an article for THT, as well as breaking out the graphs BY COUNT, where we’ll see different heat zones (even strike zones) based on the count. Stay tuned for that…
Man, I love all these guys working on PITCHf/x.
#5 tangotiger 2008/02/26 @ 11:03 AM
Here they are, courtesy of Jonathan, by count. Start with the 0-2 and 3-0 counts, he most obvious counts where a pitcher will either avoid the middle, or only focus on the middle.
I find these charts so very cool:
http://tangotiger.net/halejon/
#6 Tangotiger 2008/02/27 @ 05:43 PM
SirKodiak had a neat idea to put all the charts on one page, so he provided the page, so here you go:
http://tangotiger.net/halejon/allcounts.html
#7 Tangotiger 2008/03/14 @ 11:05 AM
Cool work by Joe Sheehan:
http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2008/03/finish_him.php
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He also announced that he’s interning with an MLB team. Good for him, as he deserves it.
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More breakdown, this time by handedness of batter and pitcher:
http://tangotiger.net/halejon/
Makes alot more sense.