Geehoon Hong

Udvikler for TrackMan

[MLBPitchClass @MLBPitchClass]

New Pitch Alert! ⚾️✂️🚨 Brendan Beck (NYY) added a cutter during his recent stint in Triple-A so his full repertoire is now SI / FF / FS / FC / SL / CU
https://t.co/d4K2eWzEu4

[MLB @MLB]

Chris Sale is just the 10th pitcher in MLB history to record 500+ strikeouts with 3 different teams!

[Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) @BauerOutage]

Most pitchers aim at a spot. I aim at a spot based on how I know I'll miss it.

Every pitch has a miss pattern. Once you map it, you stop fighting it and start using it.

My cutter and gyro ball miss pretty evenly around the target. Not a lot of shape to the miss. So I just throw at the glove and trust it'll be close.

My sweeper is completely different. I almost always miss up arm side or down glove side. I almost never miss up glove side or down arm side. That's an elongated miss pattern with a clear direction.

So in an 0-2 count, my catcher sets the glove in the zone. I throw at it. If I'm on, the pitch starts at their front hip and they take it for a strike. If I yank it, it breaks off the plate and they chase it. Either way, I win.

My curveball misses up or down, almost never side to side. So my catcher sets the glove on the ground at his feet. If I miss up, it lands in the zone for a strike. If I bounce it, it's a chase pitch in the dirt.

I'm not trying to hit the perfect spot every time. I'm engineering outcomes from my actual misses.

That's the difference between guessing and having a system.

[Nick Pollack @PitcherList]

The Guardians are using market inefficiencies in their pitching development. Tanner Bibee and Parker Messick are evidence of that.

https://t.co/cGPnoCw5tF

[Tangotiger 🍁 @tangotiger]

Blog Post: When does Swing Speed start to decline?

https://t.co/DR21w8A9DT

[Daren Willman @darenw]

#MLB run differential by game this season. 🎢. Massive separation with the top 4 teams and everyone else.

[Eno Sarris @enosarris]

If it seems like there’s been more offense recently, there has, and then well there’s this. Drag on the ball currently lower than any year other than 2019, when baseball broke all kinds of homer records. Super weird considering MLB owns the ball maker, has humidors in every park:

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

Dylan Cease's new changeup is interesting b/c it doesn't dip/dive like you'd think; movement not impressive. But look what's happening to 4-seamer in terms of "late swing%."

2023 // 20%
2024 // 22%
2025 // 25%
2026 // 41% <---

now *that* is interesting.

https://t.co/qiWSe4idtA

[Lau Sze Yui @903124S]

Inspired by suggestion I've decided to make player card but unlike others it's for batter!
Using physical analysis of attack angle and launch angle we can estimate where the ball is hit relative to the bat 1/n 🧵

[Louback @Iouback]

UTILIDADE PÚBLICA: para quem gosta de dados, estatísticas, e números, ou apenas gosta de Futebol, a FIFA está disponibilizando dados físicos e técnicos de todos os jogos da Copa do Mundo.

link: https://t.co/raLLKYzDsK

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

Wrote about how on earth it's possible that Tyler Rogers, the man who throws 82, is along with Mason Miller the only P to not allow a single barrel yet -- and how he's doing it by making hitters later on their swings than *anyone* else is.

--> https://t.co/TjQHNV3UeN

[Lau Sze Yui @903124S]

Adding miss distance to https://t.co/m3iGNYYeSF (trail/flail estimate only without refer to new Statcast data)

[FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs]

Jeff Hoffman and the Worst BABIP of All Time https://t.co/HGgTEtra27

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

You can do fun things with this. Why do pitchers increasingly like breaking and offspeed? Because they miss bats by much, much more distance.

https://t.co/pvkZ8ty7RA

[Nate Schwartz @_nateschwartz]

Can't wait to actually dig into these stats, but had to pull up Jordan Walker and this looks incredible:

-consistently centering up fastballs
-almost always on time
-getting under the ball

that's how you have a power surge

[Aiden Stepansky @AidenStepansky]

Paul Skenes was driving down Perry Highway in Wexford just past seven o’clock Monday night when the Pirates superstar pitcher made a pit stop. It was a Little League field.

Skenes signed autographs for over two hours, connecting with Pittsburgh's next generation.

For @MLB ⤵️

[Matt Weyrich @ByMattWeyrich]

The Orioles’ scoreboard has started showing Statcast percentiles for their hitters during at-bats.

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

the greatest pitch frame in baseball history

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

Really liked this from @_Ben_Clemens. I think people in general are missing the plot on bunting this year.

Bunting for a hit = good. Almost always has been.
Bunting for an out = bad. Almost always has been.

https://t.co/VtKpoyXfc9

[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?

LEADERBOARD--> https://t.co/hEztM6Oe2e