RESEARCH: Pitcher-Positive Outcomes, pt. 1
Feb 12 2013
On the Feb. 1, 2013 edition of the BaseballHQ Radio podcast, guest Gene McCaffery of Wise Guy Baseball discussed the sustainability of outcomes that many baseball analysts consider outside the realm of “skills.”
In particular, McCaffery reiterated his position that easy flyballs are at least somewhat skill-based, and that pitchers like Jered Weaver are consistently underappreciated (and consistently under-projected) because they are “flyball pitchers” who don’t get enough credit for inducing higher-than-normal numbers of easy flyballs and lower-than-normal numbers of the hard-hit FBs that result in extra-base hits and HR.
Based on that discussion, we decided to test whether outcomes like pop-ups and cans ’o corn might have more of...
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