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Higher EV.....more HRs maybe.....which wouldn't change your BABIP to better or worse.
Has agreed to a one-year deal with the Giants for $1.15 million.
Two-year deal with the 'Stros, terms not announced.
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They don't. At least as I read it. That might be why the highest EV batters don't have a higher BABIP. They get the sweet part of the bat on the ball but don't center it.
Mickey Mantle had the longest hang time on his infield flies of any batter ever.
Luckily Statcast can't disprove that.
The Reds are not acting like he's in the closer mix - throwing him out for a 3 inning start against the Rockies today.
Nice outing - 3 IP, 2 H, 0 BB, 3 K. Early save speculators might get a payback anyway.
3 inning start versus the Nationals best lineup today - only 1 walk (2 hits, 2 K's).
The plot thickens.
I've been wondering for awhile what the total value of publicly funded stadia in America that has been torn down in the last decade or so simply for lack of a good way to retrofit as many suites as the ownership would like ...
I wonder what the exit velocity for a lot of pop flies are?
If the ball goes up at a 80 degree launch angle at 100 mph - they don't count it as a hard hit ball I assume.
So, just as Quality Starts can be many different things, so can Barrels.You can have a really high quality Barrel or a barely qualifying Barrel.
In an attempt to answer how well Barrels correlates with success, I sorted all batters last year with a minimum of 100 plate appearances by Barrel percent, then averaged their other measurements of success. Here's what I found.
Barrels 17%
BABIP .307
BA .265
SA .548
The 20 hitters ranged from Miguel Sano (Barrels 22.9%) to Rhys Hoskins (14.8%). As a group they averaged 17%.
They averaged a well above average BABIP, a well above average batting average, and a dramatically above average slugging average.
Not at all surprising. When you barrel the ball you get good results.
It gets more interesting when you look at hitters who simply hit the ball hard (at least 95 mph), without paying attention to launch angle.
Averages for the 20 hitters with the highest Hard Hit percents in 2020
Hard Hit 54%
BABIP .299
BA .255
SA .511
A group ranging from Fernando Tatis Jr. (62.2%) to Jorge Soler (50.0%) hit the ball hard, on average 54% percent of the time, which is outstanding. And they got good results: nothing wrong with a .511 slugging average. Just not nearly as good as the 20 best barrel hitters (lots of duplicates, of course; Tatis was second to Sano in Barrels).
What about the 20 hitters who simply hit the ball harder -- every time they put the ball in play -- than anyone else?
Averages for the 20 hitters with the highest average Exit Velocity in 2020
EV 93.3
BABIP .294
BA .249
SA .492
Tatis heads this list (95.9 average EV); Ronald Acuna is number 20 (92.4). In between are some players you don't find on the other two (Miguel Cabrera, Joc Pederson, Kyle Schwarber).
It's a good group but not a great group. The batting average is only five points better than the major league average. The BABIP is a little under..
I wonder why that is?
I mentioned earlier in an Aguilar post that Aguilar's success since he was released by Cleveland, after 58 at bats over 3 years, is part of the conversation this spring in Goodyear, where Bradley (looking trimmer, say the notes), is getting a chance to win the Cleveland job at first. Bradley's capabilities remind Cleveland of Aguilar, and they don't want to fail to give this guy a full shot at the majors, says Francona.
Bradley, Bauers, Josh Naylor and Daniel Johnson all are competing at being the lefty either in RF or at 1st. Naylor is pretty much set as the starter in right, at least against RHPs, but first is open.
Baseball Prospectus link above takes you to Bradley of Pirates, not of Cle. Bradley has a shot at starting at 1st opening day. Trimmed down, and ready, he says.
mlb:
https://www.mlb.com/player/bobby-bradley-656252?season=2021&team=114
Bobby Bradley is who Francona hopes will play 1st. He's hit 2 HRs so far. Cle's middle of the order is weak. Once you get past Jose, Rosario and Reyes. probably 2-3-4. Bradley could be 5.
Is he in line for playing time at 1B in Cleveland? If not, who is?
The NL was from observer Jason Collette's twitter. He was in the AL, so not sure he'd be the one to have such a list from it. Might show up on the LABR hashtag at some point. Draft board here
Thanks for the Google link to LABR NL. Has AL been posted?
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An article I read said it was him vs Lorenzen for the 5th starter role.