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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Today I wanted to look at Brandon Phillips when he was facing a fastball. Below is the chart showing what he has gone.

There are a lot of balls put in play on the chart, but most of them appear to be from the middle of the zone and higher. It looks like he may have [...]

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Today I wanted to look at what Brandon Phillips did against both the curveball and the changeup. First lets take a look at what Phillips did versus the curveball.

Not a ton of balls in play against the curveball for Phillips. He has only put 7 balls in play (of 20 swings) and only had 2 [...]

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I wanted to look at what Phillips was doing at the plate and maybe pick up why Phillips had been struggling so much this year. The first pitch I looked at was the slider and well, the results were a bit surprising to me. Here is the chart of what Phillips has done versus the [...]

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