Comments on: Is This the Start of Ben Zobrist’s Decline? http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/04/29/is-this-the-start-of-ben-zobrists-decline/ 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: Darius Austin http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/04/29/is-this-the-start-of-ben-zobrists-decline/#comment-18329 Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:16:55 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=19088#comment-18329 In short, it’s important, but so is launch angle – Baseball Savant has a table that breaks down results for each extra mph of exit velocity: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_hit_probability. If you click the row, you can then see the breakdown for the launch angle at that speed too. Rob Arthur’s introduction at https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-new-science-of-hitting/ is good as well. His graph there of expected runs vs exit velocity is a pretty clear illustration of the relationship.

]]> By: Steve Checkosky http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/04/29/is-this-the-start-of-ben-zobrists-decline/#comment-18312 Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:19:42 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=19088#comment-18312 Darius,

Interesting article. I have a question related to your BABIP comment:

“However, that BABIP might be largely deserved, given the way he has been hitting the ball so far. Zobrist has not been an unlucky starter: He simply hasn’t been making particularly good contact.”

Has anybody reported the correlation between BABIP and exit velocity? Seems plausible that there would be a relationship.

]]> By: Darius Austin http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/04/29/is-this-the-start-of-ben-zobrists-decline/#comment-18307 Sun, 30 Apr 2017 07:16:03 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=19088#comment-18307 I’m happy to help him turn it around.

]]> By: ren0901 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/04/29/is-this-the-start-of-ben-zobrists-decline/#comment-18305 Sat, 29 Apr 2017 22:52:24 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=19088#comment-18305 Had this article in the queue when Zobrist blasted an HR over the Green Monster

]]> By: Darius Austin http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/04/29/is-this-the-start-of-ben-zobrists-decline/#comment-18298 Sat, 29 Apr 2017 17:05:51 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=19088#comment-18298 Thanks Tom – I couldn’t bring myself to do it in the end. Best to leave that to more seasoned pun-masters.

]]> By: Tom Pringle http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/04/29/is-this-the-start-of-ben-zobrists-decline/#comment-18295 Sat, 29 Apr 2017 15:48:05 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=19088#comment-18295 Great article Darius, I’m surprised you didn’t go with “Ben Slowbrist”.

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