Earlier in the spring after looking at a called third strike, Dusty Baker made a comment that Votto needed to be more aggressive at the plate. Some took it in a way that Baker wanted him to start swinging at a lot more and at pitches out of the zone. I took it more as [...]

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Today I wanted to just break down a little bit of Edinson Volquez when he threw his curveball last year. He only threw 70 of them that registered with the Pitch F/X system, but they are all charted below.

It looks like he was squeezed a little bit at the bottom of the strikezone on his [...]

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Yesterday I took a quick look at just the types of pitches, velocity and movement Volquez got with his pitches. Today I wanted to take a look at Volquez when the baseball was put in play against him. Before I we get to the chart, I want to explain it a little bit. The strikezone [...]

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Today I wanted to just get a feel for Edinson Volquez, who will be in the Reds rotation this year. He only pitched for the Rangers for September of last year, so the data is limited to just under 500 pitches. Still, it gives us enough to have a decent look.
First is just his pitch [...]

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What is pitch f/x?
The pitch f/x system was created by Sportsvision and basically its a set of camera’s that calculate many different variables of each pitch of each game across Major League Baseball. It calculates pitch start speed, pitch end speed, the amount of break, where the ball is as it crosses home plate and [...]

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