Comments on: Pitch Type Leaderboards

By: joser

joser — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:00:07 +0000

At this point I think the upside for Morrow is “the next Putz”

By: mikefast

mikefast — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:03:06 +0000

Kelvim Escobar is another guy who mixes up his pitches a lot. BIS has his pitch mix at 52% fastballs, 11% sliders, 4% cutters, 9% curveballs, 13% changeups, and 11% splitters. I assume what they label cutters should actually be sliders since Escobar doesn’t throw a cutter.

In the BIS data, he just misses the 5 pitches at 10% or more threshold on the curveball. In the PITCHf/x data, which only covers about 80% of his pitches, he threw 52% fastballs, 14% sliders, 10% curveballs, 13% changeups, and 10% splitters.

By: Notor

Notor — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:55:40 +0000

The signings of Silva and Bedard made him expendable as a starter, so it looks like he’s gonna be in the bullpen for a while….if he ever gets out of there.

By: shirts

shirts — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:24:15 +0000

So whatever happened to Morrow the starter?

By: Mr. Egaas

Mr. Egaas — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:32:11 +0000

Ah right you are. Was reading old news.

By: wilymo

wilymo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:17:54 +0000

I think you’re thinking of Casey Janssen who’s out for the year. Unless I’ve missed something recently on Marcum…

By: Mr. Egaas

Mr. Egaas — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:58:19 +0000

Marcum is done for the season.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:23:22 +0000

Dave, what do you think of Marcum? PECOTA has him falling way off this year, especially in comparison to his teammate MacGowan.

By: msb

msb — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:13:27 +0000

and here I bitch about others not reading the thread through before posting.

By: msb

msb — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:12:41 +0000

Jamie Moyerâ€™s pitches are slow and slower.. and he taught the change up to Cole Hamels.

um, no. Hamels learned it from the pitching coach at Rancho Bernardo High.