Interesting Note from the Buster Olney Blog
by Hyatt on Sep 29, 2009 8:45 AM CDT
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PrintBuster was breaking down the Angels-Red Sox upcoming Playoff matchup, and noted how the Angels have a hard time hitting high velocity fastball pitchers. He then included a graph on teams with the highest average velocity and the lowest average velocity. Here it is...
| Avg Velocity, Staffs | |
| Team | Avg MPH |
| (1) Tigers | 92.3 |
| (2) Red Sox | 92.1 |
| (3) Giants | 91.9 |
| (4) Mariners | 91.74 |
| (5) Marlins | 91.73 |
| (6) Yankees | 91.67 |
| (7) Rockies | 91.5 |
| (8) Dodgers | 91.4 |
| (16) Braves | 90.7 |
| (20) Angels | 90.52 |
| (21) Twins | 90.46 |
| (24) Cardinals | 90.2 |
| (28) Phillies | 89.4 |
| (29) Nats | 89.34 |
| (30) Brewers | 89.25 |
| MLB Avg | 90.8 |
If you had any question on why the Brewers were so hittable this year, this chart may help explain. It's interesting to see that of the teams that made some noise in September are among the top 8 in this stat.
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Pedro, Blanton, and Moyer probably have a lot to do with that
"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."
I think it'd be nice to throw in a hard tossing middle reliever
And sandwich him between Villy and Hoffman. I’m not a fan of teams like AZ that throw in flame-thrower after flame-thrower after flame-thrower. You gotta switch up speeds to keep the hitters uncomfortable.
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Chicago
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Cincinnati
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Houston
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Milwaukee
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Pittsburgh
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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St. Louis
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