RESEARCH: Pitcher handedness
Apr 17 2013
Last week, BaseballHQ.com’s Research & Analysis looked at batter handedness, to see if left-handed hitters (LHH) deserve their rep as better choices than right-handed hitters (RHH). Short answer: They don’t.
Part of the reason RH hitters did better in platoon differences is that LH pitchers make up a 30% minority of all pitchers, so RH hitters get to see and adapt to more same-hand pitchers than do their LH-hitting counterparts.
With that wisdom in our pocket, we now have a new hypothesis to test: That LH pitchers (LHP) should be better fantasy assets than RHP because LHPs’ relative unfamiliarity should help them, especially against LHH, where they also have the platoon advantage.
Method
Our method was straightforward, echoing the...
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