Swing Rate

[Docwaukee]

1 minute ago, floplag said:

Perhaps, likely even, all im saying is that a low swing rate that isnt producing more walks seems to suggest taking too many good pitches.

it's less about producing more walks and more about swinging at pitches that are in your hit/hot zone even if that means letting more strikes go by.  Then, when behind in the count with two strikes you are forced to protect a bit more.   Their discipline peripherals are really good right now.  Eventually that BABIP will normalize.  

[Inside Pitch]

55 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

it's less about producing more walks and more about swinging at pitches that are in your hit/hot zone even if that means letting more strikes go by.  Then, when behind in the count with two strikes you are forced to protect a bit more.   Their discipline peripherals are really good right now.  Eventually that BABIP will normalize.  

Glad  I read to the end ...you summed my position up perfectly.

They just scored two runs on walks.  We haven't seen them show this type of discipline in ages...   It's nice to see.  Now they need to have a few more hit balls fall in.

[Stradling]

Ok, if our OBP is 80 points higher than our batting average I would assume that is among the league leaders.  

[floplag]

1 hour ago, RBM said:

 

Flop, did you read and comprehend what inside pitch wrote? It’s ok to move off your original premise when provided with additional information. 

i understood it perfectly, as well as what doc wrote, and while both are right, prior to today they were not hitting or walking at a rate that made sense based on that stat.  
Again, not questioning the methodology, only pointing out that to date it seemed anomalous. 

[maestro]

Thanks for all the great discussion and digging into stats guys. Super interesting and you guys do it before I can even think to

do you guys attribute this performance to Reed/Wooten and their gameplan? Or is it the guys they brought in already had this approach?

[Jeff Fletcher]

On 4/13/2019 at 9:55 AM, Vlad27Trout27 said:

 

Also has Cahloiun fallen into pull happy mode aswell?

Don’t start this again, please. 

He actually hit a couple balls hard to LF in the last two games but they were caught. 

[Glen]

On 4/13/2019 at 9:00 AM, Tank said:

The eulogy from Ralston Schmidt was pure poetry.

"This guy...this fuckin' guy..."

[2112]

On 4/13/2019 at 9:12 AM, Stradling said:

So I am guessing Yunel Escobar and Juan Rivera had very bigly swing rates. 

Grounding into double plays and smelling his bat after a foul ball.  I miss Juan Rivera.  He just wasn't the same player after breaking his leg.

[ScottT]

I'll always remember (hopefully) seeing Juan Rivera at the airport in VA, after the second game of a three game series against the Nationals. Thought he may have been traded. Chuck made me ask him why he was there. He said he was going to take care of personal business and hadn't been traded. Turns out his baby mama was about to give birth or already had.

[T.G.]

Schwing rates are more valuable.

[ettin]

On 4/15/2019 at 8:59 AM, NotMyCat said:

Grounding into double plays and smelling his bat after a foul ball.  I miss Juan Rivera.  He just wasn't the same player after breaking his leg.

You're right he did whiff a lot.

[nate]

Simba needs to break out of his slump.  Two singles today is nice.  With Ohtani on the DL, Simba is the only other exciting Angel.

Also $#* this $*I#ing pitching!