Expert layman Matt Goodwin (@TheCorkedMatt) and fake baseball economist Alexander Chase (@chase_rate) talk about using contact data to understand pitchers. We talk about HardHit%, Hard% and Soft%, better ways to analyze and compare pitchers using contact data, and the potential impact of the new deadened ball. Listen carefully and you'll hear us trip all over our words a couple of times. Okay, you don't have to listen too hard and it's more than a couple of times.
Ball Articles: Juiced | Deadened
Pitching Article: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/josh-staumont-talks-pitching/
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Timestamps | Weak contact, pitchers' perspective (04:00), Numbers of the week; HardHit%, Hard% (04:40), Case Study: Kenta Maeda (06:12), Context for contact (12:24), Case Study: Glasnow + Keuchel (16:15), Extremes to prove the logic (20:46), Reliability of HardHit% / PA (25:41), Case Study: Hyun-jin Ryu (28:42), Case Study: Jon Lester and Soft% (35:43), Contact re: situation + arsenal (42:09), New balls for 2021 (48:27).
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