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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Hang time
After all my years of begging and pleading for the recording of Hang Time, (along with others, including Dudek’s great article in the first Hardball Times on the matter), it looks like we’re finally going to get it:
First off, Dewan and Lichtman will start recording the “hang time” of fly balls. Dewan’s crew will do so with computer software and time all fly balls hit during the 2009 season — working off video footage — from bat to glove. Lichtman will have 30 people armed with handheld stopwatches doing the same thing with fly-ball footage from the 2006 to 2008 seasons.
That’s seen as great news by Dave Cameron, a co-founder of the U.S.S. Mariner Web site, which provides stats-based analysis for Mariners fans. “I think the key is, what we really want to know is how far a fielder can go in a certain amount of time and we really don’t have that now,” Cameron said. “If Ichiro runs 180 feet to catch a ball, we’re going to know how much time he had to get to it and whether he should have been there. Right now, that’s just some dude’s opinion in a box.”
Extra article here.
Hat tip: USSM.
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