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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

HR presentation

By Tangotiger, 02:43 PM

Ah, this I like:

The bottom line is the horizontal location of the pitch (from the catcher’s view point, so a lefty hitter is on the right side, and the +1 means a pitch inside), and the top line is the angle of the HR (-45 is 3B and +45 is 1B).  He also color-coded the lines by pitch type (legend not provided).  So, for example, we see that the red-pitch (whichever one that is, let’s presume it’s a changeup) was thrown inside 4 times for a HR, and never outside.

It takes a little getting used to.  If you look at the first red-line, you see that the horizontal location was near the middle of the plate, and the spray angle was around 30 degrees.  The last red-line was thrown way inside, and had a spray angle of 45 degrees.  But, the visual line you see is actually a sharper “angle” for the first line.  So, that part is confusing.  The visual angle you see of the line itself is meaningless: what we care about are the two endpoints that link the line.

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