First lets note that there were over 100 pitches missing from the game today, so the data isn’t complete for Cordero or for Harang. Secondly, I goofed and left the axis lines in for Cordero and Burton on. The numbers are inches.
Aaron Harang
Harang was very much on the right side of the zone today, going to the left side of the zone just a few times. Both of the home runs he allowed were near the middle of the plate. The data is missing 40 pitches for him, so its tough to get a full grasp on his game today.
Jared Burton
Burton was a little wild as usual. He allowed one HR (that was an absolute bomb), but it wasn’t exactly in the worst location ever for a 93 MPH fastball. Both of his swinging strikes were on sliders, but 6 of the 7 balls he threw were also sliders.
David Weathers
Weathers was down in the zone for his inning of work. Not 1 pitch was even as high as the middle of the zone. Typical David Weathers, he just seems to get it done somehow.
Francisco Cordero
Cordero’s information is missing a few pitches. He allowed a hit during the game, but the data was not there for that pitch. Not sure if it was an error in the data from MLB with the ‘Ball’ that is right in the middle of the zone.
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1 jinaz // Apr 1, 2008 at 5:12 pm
That may have been the first time I’d actually seen Burton pitch–don’t get many games out here, and I’m too cheap for mlb.tv. I thought he looked pretty good, and I agree that his home run pitch wasn’t awful, though it was definitely up.
His last strikeout was on his cutter, right? Looked like it tailed back over the plate.
-j
2 Doug Gray // Apr 1, 2008 at 5:46 pm
It is claiming that it was a 91 MPH Slider on the strikeout of Chris Young. I don’t know how accurate their new ‘pitch type’ tool is though. In a few weeks we will have a much better idea of how accurate it is.
3 Freida // Apr 2, 2008 at 3:28 am
How do you get access to this data? Great stuff!
4 Doug Gray // Apr 2, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Freida,
http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/
That site holds the data.
Mike Fast runs a site called Fast Balls, it has a walk through that tells you how to get the data, but if you aren’t tech savvy its not going to make much sense.
http://fastballs.wordpress.com/
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