New MLB Tracking system..

Pinbreaker · Mar 3, 2014

I was watching the MLB channel and they were talking about a new defensive stat that they will have..

Now it will show how good some of these guys really are and which one are mediocre..

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb...md=20140301&content_id=68514514&vkey=news_mlb

smapdi · Mar 4, 2014

Heyward's first step took 0.02 seconds. Johnson's took 0.05. Come on, Johnson, get your head in the game.

That "route efficiency" stat is kind of interesting, and, with no point of reference for these numbers, shows how hard it is to play OF. Is 97% good, bad, average? For this kind of hit where he had to go so far, I imagine it's great, but it's also the kind of great you have to be even to make more routine plays. I remember when I tried playing the outfield for the first time at about 15 years old. I had no idea what the ball was doing. Everything looked like a pop-up, so I'd charge in on the ball, only to have it fly over my head. For someone to react to the swing 300 feet away, take off in 0.02 seconds, run in a nearly straight line directly to a spot 80 feet away in 4 seconds, and dive to full extension so you smack into the ground while trying to catch a ball before it hits...it's really amazing.

George_Calfas · Mar 4, 2014

Jim Edmonds would have been screwed since my brother [MENTION=8688]U L Washington Rookie[/MENTION] contends that Jimmy took poor routes to hotdog or make highlight reels.

U L Washington Rookie · Mar 4, 2014

George_Calfas said:
Jim Edmonds would have been screwed since my brother @U L Washington Rookie contends that Jimmy took poor routes to hotdog or make highlight reels.

I'm not sure I'd say he intentionally took poor routes, but I'm convinced he played in a manner that maximized his chances at making catches look more difficult than necessary.

Pinbreaker · Mar 5, 2014

U L Washington Rookie said:
I'm not sure I'd say he intentionally took poor routes, but I'm convinced he played in a manner that maximized his chances at making catches look more difficult than necessary.

When Griffey was with the M's the first time, he would make it look effortless.. the catches that he made were phenomenal..

I can imagine what his numbers would have been..

rsmath · Mar 5, 2014

Pinbreaker said:
When Griffey was with the M's the first time, he would make it look effortless.. the catches that he made were phenomenal..

I can imagine what his numbers would have been..

that's probably the future of the technology. Once you have enough data from current players/games, you can probably use info gathered from actual data vs. tv views to apply to old games where the technology wasn't in place to take a griffey jr. highlight reel catch (for instance) and calculate the data for that play if you have enough iso camera views of that catch to make a computation.

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