Pitch Characteristics, Selection, and Outcomes
I've put together this page (http://theuniverseas.com/baseball/conrate.html) to look at a number of different stats for a pitcher's different pitches (e.g. Santana's changeup, Barbaro's curveball). You can see who among the 50 or so I've listed gets the most whiffs on swings or what pitcher's pitch gets a lot of ground outs. There's also a look at situational selection such as in a 2-2 count, vs. lefties, or the 7th inning. There's also BABIP and SLGBIP stats and I was wondering if that would be preferable or not to regular old BA, averaging in when the pitch ends the at bat with a strikeout. There's more I could do with this data like creating pitch charts, seperating contact rates and BA between when facing lefties and righties, or looking at how close to the edges a pitcher pitches, but I ran out of columns in excel. Is there anyway to increase the number of cloumns? Or something like excel with more columns?
It's kind of hard to differentiate between a pitcher's pitches when he throws a splitter, but thankfully only a few do. I'm mainly uncertain about Smoltz's pitches. Is his slider that slow, or is that actually the curve I calculated and the splitter: the slider; changeup: splitter?
Also, what's a good pitcher I left off with a plus-plus offering? There's no data for Lincecum and just one start for Zito, but that should change as it appears the installed the pitch f/x system in San Francisco for the All-Star game.
Please voice any comments, suggestions, or reactions.
Also since this in a minor league blog, there's data from the futures game below. Unfortunately there was only 4 pitches for Deolis Guerra, so I had to ignore him:
http://theuniverseas.com/baseball/futures.html
Now hopefully MLB doesn't gun me down, then make this pitch f/x data unavailable to the public no matter your hacking abilities. I would think Scouting Agencies who sell this information would hate this adventure MLB is doing.
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I couldn't find the data
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I think you've mentioned this before, but I couldn't find it, where do you pull the xml files from? Cool stuff.
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http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2007/
I just put them in wordpad and save them as .xml files.
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Great job
by Badler on Jul 11, 2007 1:40 PM EDT reply actions

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