Dana Bennett

Data Viz at Baseball Savant
Formerly with the Atlanta Baseball Team and of many hobbies.

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

🚨New metric release day from the Statcast factory at Baseball Savant

How much do pitchers miss the bat by? Is the bat over the ball or under? Tied up, or flailing? Is the batter early? Or late?

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[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

🚨Big news from the Statcast factory🚨

New release on Baseball Savant:

⚾Swing Path
⚾Attack Angle
⚾Ideal Attack Angle
⚾Attack Direction

It's all here: https://t.co/U4SUbkCcv3

Let's 🧵 what all this is and means:

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

🚨
It's Big Update Day over at the Statcast factory.

First: these slick looking pitch movement (and arm angle!) charts at the top of each player page. You can get context, flip POV, get some different angles.

This is showing IVB. Speaking of which ..

https://t.co/kWZRct7dwH

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

So as you've probably seen, public bat tracking data from Statcast is available at Baseball Savant.

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[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

A few smaller things up on Baseball Savant from the great @danabennett while we work on some much bigger things

1) You can do run value/100 pitches now, if you like rate stats. So, best RV/100 on pitch types thrown at least 250 times (https://t.co/rdxrfKAZiK)

[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

@Yoshi2052 @BaseballSavant1 That's odd. Thanks for the note, we'll look into it! @SavantTips is probably best for these bugs in the future.

[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

@deschainejc @SavantTips Sorry about that Jonathan. That was our mistake, but should be fixed now.

[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

@inter_lines @mike_petriello Sorry about that. Do you have an example of a link that used to work?

[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

We just dropped a new "leaderboard" and visual for MLB's pitch timer infractions. If you are curious how frequently these violations occur, check it out here: https://t.co/HGFU94TFJT

[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

@_dadler That's awesome!! As I recall right field is the place to be in that stadium. Did you do the balloon launch thingy?

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

I was honored to be nominated by @SlangsOnSports as she starts the #FistBumps4ALS campaign — as was Ginger the dog. Please help Sarah reach her goal her: https://t.co/hsbfs1fSBH

And now, you're up, NFL Live crew:

@LauraRutledge
@mspears96
@danorlovsky7
@minakimes
@Realrclark25

[Karl Ravech @karlravechespn]

5/2 is @SlangsOnSports birthday. A very special day for a very special person. This is A Langs Star. (ALS) On June 2 of this year, Lou Gehrig day, we all will be able to light a star for Sarah to help find a cure. @MLB @ProjectALSorg. Stay tuned for details.Happy birthday bud!

[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

We worked hard on this one, enjoy!

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

On, the leaderboard, @danabennett did a great job showing the huge relationship between distance from 2B for the runner and pop time.

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[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

I'm really excited about this feature!

Tons to look into, here's an example of sweeper movement compared to sliders, by all pitchers that have thrown at least 50 of one or the other.
https://t.co/0Hjp7ZJYmp

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

ICYMI yesterday: you can now search on pitch movement numbers at Baseball Savant. Short form, long form, in, out, whatever you like.

So here's batters in 2022-23 who have had to face the most 97MPH+ pitches that moved at least 10 inches away from them

https://t.co/fFLx6Mgg09

[Harry Roberts @csswizardry]

As well as minifying, obfuscating, and compressing your HTML, CSS, JS, try swapping your double quotes to the much lighter single-quote. #perfmatters

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

A special treat for minor league opening day. Which half of you noticed already because you're all sickos♥️.

https://t.co/sVhbjWaDYJ

[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

I heard baseball twitter loves pitcher overlays, so I made one. Am I doing this right @PitchingNinja?

Happy Opening Day!

[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

@joemadison89 @tangotiger @thorn_john Ah! Thanks for pointing me in this direction (https://t.co/uWe1FVWseC)

It's the same ratio, but his is a way less contrived sample!

[John Thorn @thorn_john]

On Pi Day last year, I wondered whether any MLB player ever finished a season with a batting average of 31416. Found Scoops Carey, with Washington Senators of 1902. Carey is indeed the baseball face of pi: while his 1902 batting average rounds to 31416, it extends to 31415929.

[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

Happy Day! From August 5th 2018 through May 16th 2021 Xander Bogaerts got 355 hits in 1130 plate appearances. That was good for a batting average of .3141592...

[Dana Bennett @danabennett]

Hello again twitter! Anything new in the last three years?

If you are finding me from SABR, I may dust this account off occasionally, but don’t expect much.

If you are in Phoenix and see me, please say hello!