Interesting Note from the Buster Olney Blog

by Hyatt on Sep 29, 2009 8:45 AM CDT Comment 5 comments

Buster 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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The Red Sox must have some really hard throwers to overcome Wakefield

You know me Al.

by TheJay on Sep 29, 2009 9:30 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, the Phillies and the Cardinals pitching sucks almost as much as ours!

Or… wait, what?

by Mykenk on Sep 29, 2009 9:42 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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."

by Hyatt on Sep 29, 2009 9:49 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know, I'm justing saying, pitch speed has a pretty low (but still positive) correlation with success. I'm guessing.

by Mykenk on Sep 29, 2009 9:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

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.

Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, "That’s all they need is another home run hitter".

by tcyoung on Sep 29, 2009 9:54 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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