Hi folks, Harry Doyle here. During the long plane ride from Cleveland to Chicago I decided to abandon the DataFrames, scatter plots, and Vaughn score calculations to dig into some basic stats.
Guess who is 6th in MLB for first pitch strikes? Henrdicks, however, tonight he is a bit off his stuff, but has not yet paid the price. As I type he escaped another jam in the 4th with strike a out on 3–2.
Corey Kluber was not Klu-botic tonight.
Zero strike outs. Zero natural ground outs. Behind in the count. Less junk pitches. Less strikes on first pitch. Abandoned his curve ball. Hit a batter. Did not locate his two-seam fastball, providing the Cubs a…
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?
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Good evening folks Harry Doyle here and welcome to game 3 of the 2016 Major League World Series.
Tonight will surely be an epic evening for Cubs fans. I was getting tweets from my Chicago friends early this morning as they were already…
Bottom of the 6th — Andrew Miller warming up in the bullpen for the Indians. If he performs as well in this game as he did in the regular season this is going to be a tough end of the game.
As I talked about in the pre-game notes — if Bauer were to struggle by putting pressure on himself (by falling behind in the count) — things were not going to go well.
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Miller enters the game with a 3 run lead gets and himself into and out of a bind. This is the first graph where we surface pressure v. execution.
Aroldis Chapman is taking the mound. He is the fastest man in baseball.
This is a breakdown of every pitch from all pitchers, by type, and then some fun metrics. Fastball 105MPH. That is Chapman at the top.
