Welcome to our first Player Profile! This is going to be a reoccurring series using some of the Statcast data available, giving yet another look to players. As a Patreon member, you can see the weekly updates for Toledo and Lakeland stats, and this will be another fun piece you can check out being the member.
Before I reveal the graphics, here’s a breakdown of what you’ll see.
- In the top left we see a spray chart. This includes any balls that registered a hit or out so far this season, color coded by the result. The stadium will always be Comerica Park, but these aren’t results as if it was at Comerica Park.
- They are the actual results. Top middle shows the player’s picture, their GB% (launch angle < 10 degrees), LD% (launch angle between 10 and 25 degrees), and FB% (launch angle > 25 degrees) as well as a count of outs that were hard hit.
- On the right is a launch angle plot. I’ve post this one before in the AFL posts. The closer to the outer edge, the harder the ball was hit. You can see a hint of red in there as well — that’s where barrels are.
- Along the bottom we see a breakdown of the players exit velocities. This is a count for each. The red line there is the player’s average exit velocity.
Each week there could be a hitter or pitcher and they could be from A, AAA, or MLB. I will also include a fact or two that would be good and fun.
Here’s a sneak peak of what you can see!
- Greene has posted a 174 wRC+ since 5/1, 24th out of 183 qualified batters.
- Thru his first 39 games (166 PA), his 0.9 fWAR already surpassed his 0.8 fWAR in 93 games (418 PA)
- 35 balls hit by Torkelson have topped 100 MPH, nearly half of the 74 he had last year in 2.5x fewer PA (404 in 2022, 157 in 2023)
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Rogelio Castillo
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