2058 - Team Pitch/Batted Ball Data (Through May)

[RonCo]

As I did with the GBC a few moments ago, here's something semi-new *meaning I've messed with some of it before but never really compiled stuff this way or felt confident enough of it to let it out into the wild too freely.

Anyway, I've been messing with my game log scripts, and have this very interesting data, sorted here by team. I also have it by individual pitcher, and will drop that in an excel/csv file as an attachment in case you're interested! (You'll have to sort yours out of the mix if you want to get personal)

But first...

Team	Pitches	GB	FB	LD	PU	HR	Contact	Bunts
Altantic City	8155	707	656	326	121	64	1689	7
Bikini	8205	755	577	357	109	46	1689	6
Boise	8322	689	640	316	121	59	1645	5
Brooklyn	8458	694	641	356	109	76	1691	8
Calgary	8513	699	618	330	114	74	1647	10
Charlotte	8440	718	611	359	108	55	1688	5
Charm City	8068	719	581	331	97	65	1631	5
Chicago	8348	662	658	317	132	70	1637	7
Des Moines	8014	684	626	340	111	79	1650	4
Edmonton	8452	736	638	342	103	73	1716	4
Rocky Mountain	8427	658	625	301	126	85	1584	4
Hawaii	7787	668	600	341	98	61	1609	7
Jacksonville	8041	697	630	297	122	70	1624	5
Las Vegas	8322	734	631	308	98	56	1673	7
Long Beach	8216	672	539	330	98	63	1541	4
Louisville	8362	668	637	365	121	84	1670	10
Madison	8021	703	625	346	120	65	1674	5
Mexico City	8212	714	615	351	116	50	1680	4
Montreal	7879	816	569	333	111	38	1718	7
Nashville	8358	684	574	311	97	57	1569	5
New Orleans	8119	667	621	326	123	69	1614	9
Omaha	8362	649	586	329	115	67	1564	5
Phoenix	8387	688	562	359	102	68	1609	2
Portland	8517	706	623	337	115	79	1666	11
Rockville	8420	712	618	369	105	78	1699	8
Sacramento	8280	658	630	317	116	56	1605	8
San Antonio	8307	682	607	358	115	71	1647	4
San Fernando	8020	686	597	326	100	63	1609	8
Twin Cities	8198	675	605	328	122	49	1608	5
Valencia	8129	720	605	311	110	59	1636	5
Vancouver	8003	709	552	286	102	48	1547	4
Yellow Springs	8272	684	642	296	133	67	1622	5

Team	GB%	FB%	LD%	PU/FB	HR/FB
Altantic City	41.86%	38.84%	19.30%	18.45%	9.76%
Bikini	44.70%	34.16%	21.14%	18.89%	7.97%
Boise	41.88%	38.91%	19.21%	18.91%	9.22%
Brooklyn	41.04%	37.91%	21.05%	17.00%	11.86%
Calgary	42.44%	37.52%	20.04%	18.45%	11.97%
Charlotte	42.54%	36.20%	21.27%	17.68%	9.00%
Charm City	44.08%	35.62%	20.29%	16.70%	11.19%
Chicago	40.44%	40.20%	19.36%	20.06%	10.64%
Des Moines	41.45%	37.94%	20.61%	17.73%	12.62%
Edmonton	42.89%	37.18%	19.93%	16.14%	11.44%
Rocky Mountain	41.54%	39.46%	19.00%	20.16%	13.60%
Hawaii	41.52%	37.29%	21.19%	16.33%	10.17%
Jacksonville	42.92%	38.79%	18.29%	19.37%	11.11%
Las Vegas	43.87%	37.72%	18.41%	15.53%	8.87%
Long Beach	43.61%	34.98%	21.41%	18.18%	11.69%
Louisville	40.00%	38.14%	21.86%	19.00%	13.19%
Madison	42.00%	37.34%	20.67%	19.20%	10.40%
Mexico City	42.50%	36.61%	20.89%	18.86%	8.13%
Montreal	47.50%	33.12%	19.38%	19.51%	6.68%
Nashville	43.59%	36.58%	19.82%	16.90%	9.93%
New Orleans	41.33%	38.48%	20.20%	19.81%	11.11%
Omaha	41.50%	37.47%	21.04%	19.62%	11.43%
Phoenix	42.76%	34.93%	22.31%	18.15%	12.10%
Portland	42.38%	37.39%	20.23%	18.46%	12.68%
Rockville	41.91%	36.37%	21.72%	16.99%	12.62%
Sacramento	41.00%	39.25%	19.75%	18.41%	8.89%
San Antonio	41.41%	36.85%	21.74%	18.95%	11.70%
San Fernando	42.64%	37.10%	20.26%	16.75%	10.55%
Twin Cities	41.98%	37.62%	20.40%	20.17%	8.10%
Valencia	44.01%	36.98%	19.01%	18.18%	9.75%
Vancouver	45.83%	35.68%	18.49%	18.48%	8.70%
Yellow Springs	42.17%	39.58%	18.25%	20.72%	10.44%

Team	Strikes	StrC	StrSw	Foul	Balls	SwStr	Str%	Ball%
Altantic City	5049	1307	698	1355	3099	13.82%	61.91%	38.00%
Bikini	5099	1285	706	1419	3100	13.85%	62.15%	37.78%
Boise	5134	1324	740	1425	3183	14.41%	61.69%	38.25%
Brooklyn	5284	1346	789	1458	3166	14.93%	62.47%	37.43%
Calgary	5332	1378	773	1534	3171	14.50%	62.63%	37.25%
Charlotte	5240	1349	752	1451	3195	14.35%	62.09%	37.86%
Charm City	5107	1344	789	1343	2956	15.45%	63.30%	36.64%
Chicago	5141	1311	749	1444	3200	14.57%	61.58%	38.33%
Des Moines	5058	1271	736	1401	2952	14.55%	63.11%	36.84%
Edmonton	5269	1332	775	1446	3179	14.71%	62.34%	37.61%
Rocky Mountain	5184	1351	800	1449	3239	15.43%	61.52%	38.44%
Hawaii	4960	1294	704	1353	2820	14.19%	63.70%	36.21%
Jacksonville	5107	1351	757	1375	2929	14.82%	63.51%	36.43%
Las Vegas	5125	1280	738	1434	3190	14.40%	61.58%	38.33%
Long Beach	5205	1453	831	1380	3007	15.97%	63.35%	36.60%
Louisville	5206	1386	708	1442	3146	13.60%	62.26%	37.62%
Madison	4967	1265	654	1374	3049	13.17%	61.92%	38.01%
Mexico City	5069	1287	752	1350	3139	14.84%	61.73%	38.22%
Montreal	4988	1300	631	1339	2884	12.65%	63.31%	36.60%
Nashville	5315	1412	859	1475	3038	16.16%	63.59%	36.35%
New Orleans	5057	1277	779	1387	3053	15.40%	62.29%	37.60%
Omaha	5164	1314	834	1452	3193	16.15%	61.76%	38.18%
Phoenix	5256	1343	826	1478	3129	15.72%	62.67%	37.31%
Portland	5326	1411	782	1467	3180	14.68%	62.53%	37.34%
Rockville	5120	1306	690	1425	3292	13.48%	60.81%	39.10%
Sacramento	5243	1346	789	1503	3029	15.05%	63.32%	36.58%
San Antonio	5123	1358	750	1368	3180	14.64%	61.67%	38.28%
San Fernando	5005	1308	710	1378	3007	14.19%	62.41%	37.49%
Twin Cities	5091	1311	758	1414	3102	14.89%	62.10%	37.84%
Valencia	5069	1297	684	1452	3055	13.49%	62.36%	37.58%
Vancouver	4998	1338	725	1388	3001	14.51%	62.45%	37.50%
Yellow Springs	5121	1277	758	1464	3146	14.80%	61.91%	38.03%

[Bob Breum]

Team	GB%	FB%	LD%	PU/FB	HR/FB
Montreal	47.50%	33.12%	19.38%	19.51%	6.68%

Team	Strikes	StrC	StrSw	Foul	Balls	SwStr	Str%	Ball%
Montreal	4988	1300	631	1339	2884	12.65%	63.31%	36.60%

Erik @breum working his magic with our Blazers pitching staff. We are #1 in groundball rate, and it's not particularly close. Conversely, we are last in flyball rate, as is our plan. We are also leading the league in minimizing HR/FB, which is clearly helped by the ridiculously deep fences in our home park; here again, it's not remotely close.

Not everyone can be Hector Silva. There are tradeoffs when selecting SPs. We have made an intentional choice for our staff to pitch to contact and relying on our defense to convert those (mostly) groundballs into outs. Hence we are last in swinging strikes, but a very respectable 6th in strike-throwing percentage. Here it is, hit it.

Concerning converting those groundballs into outs, here's a shout-out to our middle infield. Our 2B Miggy Martinez is leading the JL in ZR at 2B by a wide margin, and is 2nd in range. Our SS Qutuz Mahdi is leading the JL in range at SS, and is 2nd in ZR.

Erik hates it when I make these posts, but I just want to celebrate his work.

[RonCo]

I was going to take some time and talk about that, anyway. So no harm no foul, right?

[Bob Breum]

I was going to take some time and talk about that, anyway. So no harm no foul, right?

I was just very excited when I looked at your data!

[RonCo]

Montreal's swinging strike rate is very low, suggesting their pitchers don't miss bats particularly well. But their overall strike percentage (which includes contact) is very high, which also means their overall ball-rate is quite small--there are I think 4 teams better. But compare the Montreal 36.6% balls to Rockville's massive 39.1 ball-rate and that's quite the difference, now isn't it (he says, fighting valiantly to not take the "massive balls" and alpha male line too far)?

It's quite amazing to me that if you spend time looking at things, that most everything makes at least a little sense.

That said, I think the league's IFFB (popup)/FB rate is about 2x too high. Maybe 80%.

[shoeless.db]

Kinsella making my pitchers better. Leading in strike percentage. Gotta love that.

[RonCo]

Cool, too, that Nashville and Omaha are at the top of the Swinging Strike rate. Scanning the team's pitching staffs, yu can kind of guess that would be true.

[RT60]

Now I know why my team is in the basement.

[CTBrewCrew]

Hey @RT60 turn around….. heh


Thanks for this data @RonCo - im gonna vizualize it and post back up

[CTBrewCrew]

Ron's Team Pitched / Batted Balls Viz

I created a quick and dirty Viz that you can sort by any of the columns you want based of individual players and broken down by teams / players.

[Jwalk100]

Nice @CTBrewCrew!

[RonCo]

I'm thinking about this in regard to the PAA conversation we're having in that thread...but one thing to note about all of my batted ball data is that GB/FB/LD numbers are based on all results, not just outs. This is relevant because the OOTP pitcher GB rating is applied to outs only--or at least "outs" as OOTP processes things. Hence, if StatsPlus shows Samuel Nebraska as a 65% GB pitcher (which it does), his true GB performance will be considerably different (which you can see here, it is...updated through the mid-July sim):

GB%	FB%	LD%	PU/FB	HR/FB
46.9%	35.3%	17.8%	10.4%	7.0%

Stating the obvious, I note that 46.9% GB rate is not close to his 65% rating.