Joey Votto went through a small slump in the middle of May but has really turned it on since May 22nd. Since then he has hit .480/.552/.680. I figured we could take a look at what he has done over that time.

He has swung at 6 pitches out of the zone in a week. Doing [...]

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The Boss, Bruce Almight, The Natural, The Pheenom…. I have seen Jay called all of those over the last 24 hours by varying writers. Personally, I like The Boss but that doesn’t really matter too much. Lets look at what Jay Bruce did last night through some Pitch F/X.

Looks pretty strong doesn’t it? He didn’t [...]

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http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/fantasy/article/player-spotlight-johnny-cueto/
Very interesting stuff, go give it a look.
As a side note: Jay Bruce.

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I really wish I didn’t love the Reds. Seriously.
How do you use 60% of your starting rotation in 1 game, but use your long man for 2 outs?
Corey Patterson made 9 outs offensively in the same game.
David Ross caught 18 innings of baseball in 1 game!?
Paul Janish and Paul Bako were both pinch hitters but [...]

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While I didn’t have the time today to do this myself, Josh Kalk has updated his pitch f/x player cards with corrections. Johnny Cueto’s release point almost resembles a T. Guys who struggle with control generally struggle with their release points. One thing to note, Cueto’s slider and change up appear to both be classified [...]

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Not a whole lot today, been a busy day. I thought I would just run the average FB speed for our pitches and rank them accordingly.

Francisco Cordero - 94.52 MPH
Edinson Volquez - 92.92 MPH
Jeremy Affeldt - 92.89 MPH
Johnny Cueto - 92.78 MPH
Jared Burton - 91.91 MPH
Mike Lincoln - 91.52 MPH
Todd Coffey - 91.25 MPH
Matt Belisle [...]

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No graphs, charts or numbers today (those will come back tomorrow)….. today just a little rant. Jerry Hairston has hit this year, no question about it. He is no SS though. Sure, Janish air mailed one last night at a poor time, but Hairston wouldn’t have been within 2 feet of that ball. This team [...]

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While watching the Reds game the other night, one of the announcers (can’t recall currently who it was) said that Votto loved the high pitches and I decided to see if that observation was a valid one. I broke down the height of the pitches Votto has seen this year in 10 inch increments and [...]

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Yesterday I took a look at Brandon Phillips struggles on pitches as they got slower and slower. Today I did the same thing with Edwin Encarnacion. The results are not quite the same for the two players. Here is what Edwin did against different velocities of pitches:

Against a fastball, Encarnacion does not swing and miss [...]

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Brandon Phillips has always been a guy who swings at a lot of pitches. I decided to take a look at how he was against different speeds of pitches. The results were actually pretty interesting.

It seems that the slower the pitch, the tougher it is for Phillips to make contact with the pitch. The 95+ [...]

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