June 11, 201511 yr I might be reading too much into this, but... Ben Lindbergh tweeted the probability of the strike-three call that Hunter lost his mind about last night. Apparently, Glen Perkins is unaware that information like this exists. Researchers in the public domain have been studying the strikezone and its evolving and fluid nature ever since the PitchFX data was release in 2008(?). Perkins seems to be quite knowledgeable about sabermetrics, so it kind of surprises me that he is unaware that this kind of information exists. More importantly, I can't believe that the Twins don't have this information. It certainly seems like this is something the Twins should be tracking internally, and providing to their players. But I guess not? I bet this means that they don't do anything regarding catcher framing, either.
June 11, 201511 yr Who knows? Brunansky recently said that the hitters get so much information that it could "choke a horse" or something like that. I am paraphrasing but he said the hard part is boiling it down into a useful plan that a hitter can use without overthinking.
June 11, 201511 yr http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site569/2013/0630/20130630__WayneHattaway_BigFella_300.jpg The entire Twins analytic department, pictured above, disagrees. Semi-related, I loaded baseball-reference stats from1871-present into one of my Hadoop clusters a week or so ago and have been doing some bang-for-the-buck/moneyball analysis on it - some interesting finds so far, but I hadn't thought to add the pitchFX stuff in; will start working on that tonight when I get back to msp.
June 11, 201511 yr Sometimes I think Glen Perkins is half of the Twins' analytic department. Edited June 11, 201511 yr by nytwinsfan
June 11, 201511 yr What? "Location/count-based strike probabilities"?! Never heard of that before! Using my very advanced and modern statistics, that pitch was 100% a ball.
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