By Chris Quick on June 27, 2010
Your ‘Wednesday Graph’ is coming early this week. I decided to make a gigantic team plate approach graph — using the 9 players on the team with the most plate appearances. Red circles are swings, green circles are non-swings. (Click to view the extra-large version. Large version is a little clearer.) Players are listed in [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged aaron rowand, pablo sandoval, plate approach, wednesday graph
By Chris Quick on April 13, 2010
I’m a big fan of Dave Allen and his work with PitchF/X. Dave has put out some really cool — and informative — graphs by using PFX data. His post today on FanGraphs and Jason Heyward’s struggles against breaking pitches down in the zone got me thinking — how is Aaron Rowand looking so far [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged aaron rowand, hitting, plate approach, sliders
By Chris Quick on September 27, 2009
Anyone who’s watched a Pablo Sandoval at-bat should be able to realize within a few pitches that Sandoval likes to swing the stick. According to Fangraph’s O-Swing% statistic (the number of pitches outside of the strike zone that a batter swings at) Sandoval has swung at 41.8% of the pitches he’s seen this year outside [...]
Posted in Giants, Plots | Tagged fred lewis, pablo sandoval, plate approach
