Chapman Is Scary
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1 min readNov 3, 2016
In the World Series Champan has faced 23 batters, allowing… 2 hits and 1 run. Chapman is just flat out intimidating. And his confidence level is off the charts. Last night when he gave up a hit to Ramirez in the 8th, you could see the look on his face deeply processing the “mistake” even though he was under very little pressure. He is a bull with tremendous power.
He hit 105MPH this season, read about that performance here. But there is more…
What’s more scary is this. Here is his Chapman's pitch speed distribution from the graph above.count 1053.000000
mean 99.737892
std 3.055205
min 86.000000
25% 99.000000
50% 100.000000
75% 102.000000
max 105.000000
Name: pitchSpeed, dtype: float64Scary --> When tailing his last 200 pitches, his mean is about .5 higher AND he has not yet hit back into the 105 mark AND he still has decent deviation.count 200.000000
mean 100.270000
std 2.541534
min 86.000000
25% 99.000000
50% 101.000000
75% 102.000000
max 104.000000
Name: pitchSpeed, dtype: float64This is just intimidating, especially if he is locating. If the Cubs are ahead and Chapman has the ball - game over???
