Hitter plate appearance breakdowns

by Manzanillos Cup on May 1, 2007 10:12 AM PDT

I've been trying to think of ways to find accurate "similar hitters"- kind of like a similarity score- but narrowed down to the type of swing a player has. I spent the last couple of days organizing data from fangraphs into Excel. I found all active MLB players with at least 700 career plate appearances (as of last week) and found their career BB%, K%, LD%, FB%, GB%, HR%, HR/FB%, and handedness.

Take a look here.

This is a lot of fun to play with. I wonder how much a player's "swing type" factors into these numbers and how much of them is related to how pitchers pitch them...

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Some similar breakdowns

Johjima: A lot like Benji Molina
Ichiro: Endy Chavez with more power
Sexson: Pretty unique, but Jeff Francouer with more patience and power, and less hand eye coordination (higher K%)
Beltre: Vernon Wells with a few more K's.

I wish I had data on ball in play distribution: ie Johjima is an extreme pull hitter, etc.

by Manzanillos Cup on May 1, 2007 10:56 AM PDT reply actions