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Ryan Ford retweeted
The Brewers are the ultimate OUTLIER
When I was diving in on the game and pitching matchup yesterday I found this. This is a statistic of the average degree of the barrel of the bat at contact point for each team.
Everything to the left is pull side contact point. Everything to the right is opposite field contact point.
29 of the 30 teams are to the pull side.
There’s just one to the opposite field. The Milwaukee Brewers.
This is wild to me. And speaks volumes to their team approach. It means the ball is traveling deeper which has a ripple effect on everything else you’re trying to do as a hitter.
It allows you to recognize off speed for a split second longer. Spit on pitches down and away. Keep pitches fair that you’re normally pulling foul. Foul line to foul line approach.
The team with the best record in all of baseball is the ONLY team doing something. And they’re not even particularly close to any other teams. That’s pretty eye opening.
Also shoutout Twins. Turn and burn, baby.
Ryan Ford retweeted
The Brewers had the highest ground-ball rate in MLB this season. The pulled the ball less often than anyone, too. Only one team hit fewer homers.
They are the exact opposite of how modern baseball is supposed to work. They also are a scoring machine.
wsj.com/sports/baseball/brew…
The Dodgers hitters refuse to swing below the FB. Only Muncy missed below the FB w 2S. Incredible approach and execution so far. Miz would benefit from upping his off speed usage if he can land them. Get it closer to 50/50.
Ryan Ford retweeted
A sign of a good Bat Path is the ability to make flush contact across a range of POCs
As POC moves further out front:
• Attack Angle increases
• Both HAA & HBA work from oppo to pull-side
This means solid contact goes from low oppo➡️LD to CF➡️in the air pull-side
So, they’re playing baseball??
Ryan Ford retweeted
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This is what’s called pitching, not throwing.
Justin Verlander reveals the game that convinced him to stop throwing as hard as he could
“The whole knock on me early in my career was that I threw too many pitches. I’d throw 120 pitches, but I was only going six innings.”
“I had a game in Boston where we really needed me to get deep in the game. Our bullpen was shot. I go out the first couple innings, and I look up and I’ve got sixty-something pitches.”
“To me, the most important thing for that game was to chew innings. I was like, ‘I can’t keep this pace.’ So I ended up slowing myself down. I was throwing fastballs at 89. I threw a changeup in that game at 91 and threw a fastball at 89 in the same game.”
“I just pulled the throttle way back. I was like, ‘Man, here, hit it. Put it in play.’ All of a sudden, I was like, ‘Man, I am really able to hit my spot.’”
“I basically took that mentality and flipped it going into the next season. Let me try starting games like this and then building up as I go. If I get in trouble, I’ve always got it in my back pocket.”
“I always viewed it from the hitter’s perspective as you’re facing three different pitchers in three different at-bats, and they’re progressively getting harder to hit.”
Ryan Ford retweeted
If you don’t like this on deck, you’re not ready to hit. Coaches if you’re not teaching kids to do this, you’re not preparing them to hit.
Way to go, man! Congratulations!
I’ll add that Pedro did this against juiced up hitters while throwing over 200 innings a year. Miz is having a great year, but these are not the same.
