Hitter plate appearance breakdowns
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
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 0 recs
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May 1, 2007 12:06 PM PDT
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