Hendricks aka “Whodini” => OUT

In my last post I talked about Hendricks’ inability to throw first pitch strikes. Harry Doyle does not like this stat, so I asked why was this happening?

Note: Harry Doyle loves me some old school hip-hop.

One reason: he threw more off-speed pitches earlier in the count. This led to accuracy problems (see graph below) as he likes to throw the heat more often than not earlier in the count.

This is Hendricks’ count control and outcome to pressure.

Note: You can build these yourself by plowing through this document and hacking on BigQuery and Datalab. Thanks to my friends at Sportradar for the help.