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25 Things you don't know about baseball
I'm sure most of ya'll have read this, but if you haven't, you should - good number crunching by the author and SEVERAL interesting points about many players out there.
My favorite points being portions of the article mentioning Aroldis Chapman's numbers AND this.....
14. Mike Trout sees 65.9 percent fastballs, the fourth most in baseball.
Why? Scouts have talked about Trout's preternatural ability to hit off-speed stuff, and the pitch-type numbers back it up. He's got the second most runs off sliders and changes and sixth most off cutters.
15. Trout also is an incredible bad-ball hitter.
Mike Trout (Getty Images)How do you spend the first month of the season in Triple-A and end the year as perhaps the best player on the planet? Hitting off-speed pitches is a good start, and hitting bad ones is even better. On pitches classified as low and away, Trout is hitting a baseball-best .379 this season. Next on the list? Alex Gordon at .315. The major league average on such pitches is .211
Ironically, I have exactly 1 Trout auto (sorry guys, I'm not jumping on the bandwagon for that one - I'm way too late for that ship), but it's pretty cool to take a look at all the stats involving some players that we all collect.
By the way #25 is EPIC!
I'm sure most of ya'll have read this, but if you haven't, you should - good number crunching by the author and SEVERAL interesting points about many players out there.
My favorite points being portions of the article mentioning Aroldis Chapman's numbers AND this.....
14. Mike Trout sees 65.9 percent fastballs, the fourth most in baseball.
Why? Scouts have talked about Trout's preternatural ability to hit off-speed stuff, and the pitch-type numbers back it up. He's got the second most runs off sliders and changes and sixth most off cutters.
15. Trout also is an incredible bad-ball hitter.
Mike Trout (Getty Images)How do you spend the first month of the season in Triple-A and end the year as perhaps the best player on the planet? Hitting off-speed pitches is a good start, and hitting bad ones is even better. On pitches classified as low and away, Trout is hitting a baseball-best .379 this season. Next on the list? Alex Gordon at .315. The major league average on such pitches is .211
Ironically, I have exactly 1 Trout auto (sorry guys, I'm not jumping on the bandwagon for that one - I'm way too late for that ship), but it's pretty cool to take a look at all the stats involving some players that we all collect.
By the way #25 is EPIC!
