Comments on: Another Way Kris Bryant is Really Good at Baseball http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/06/03/another-way-kris-bryant-is-really-good-at-baseball/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Rian Watt http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/06/03/another-way-kris-bryant-is-really-good-at-baseball/#comment-992 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:37:49 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1633#comment-992 Agreed. It’s something I’m going to keep an eye on for a followup piece later in the year, perhaps during the offseason. In that piece, I’ll include some numbers about what it’s correlated to, both longitudinally and between metrics.

You’re also right about the Carter-Springer-Bryant-Stanton connection, but the more interesting set to me was on the Bourn-Callaspo-Granderson nexus, who are totally different from the first group. BP’s been doing some work on mapping similar players over on the main site recently; this seems like it’d be a good application for that.

In short, lots to think about! This’ll make for an interesting followup.

]]> By: Skybrod http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/06/03/another-way-kris-bryant-is-really-good-at-baseball/#comment-991 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:01:14 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1633#comment-991 I’m really curious whether it is a sustainable thing. And how many such PAs it would take for it to be of importance. It it undoubtedly connected to other plate discipline factors, like swing% and contact% and many more.
It is also a funny coincidence, that three players on that list are quite similar in some aspects: Kris Bryant, George Springer and Chris Carter. All three are power-hitters with above-average K%. According to PECOTA, Christ Carter is second in the list of comparable players behind Giancarlo Stanton.

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