Comments on: Missing Corners

By: Enhanced Gameday analysis cataloged by date « Fast Balls

Enhanced Gameday analysis cataloged by date « Fast Balls — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:10:35 +0000

[...] November 28, Jonathan Hale published “Missing Corners“, an article about the shape of the strike zone as actually [...]

By: tangotiger

tangotiger — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:34:50 +0000

So very cool. I think if you split it by handedness (batter/pitcher), you’ll probably see it better.

By: skyking162 » Around The Web 2-16-08

skyking162 » Around The Web 2-16-08 — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:19:52 +0000

[...] does the strike zone actually look like? Whatever you’re thinking, you’re [...]

By: halejon

halejon — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:51:18 +0000

Hmmm…that could be true- it could also be that the pitches right down the middle get fouled off or put in play. I wish I could think of a reasonably easy way to do these graphs by % of strikes because they’re sort of a mishmash of where pitches are being thrown/how many are slipping through right now.

I’m really surprised that the results for the average pitch and the average hit are right down the middle and centered evenly. I thought pitchers were always trying to keep the ball down and hitters hit balls up in the zone better. Instead it just looks like everything revolves around the belt.

By: studes

studes — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:05:42 +0000

awesome graphs, Jon. One of the things I love about that first graph is that it shows that pitchers really aren’t throwing the ball down the middle — the colors are denser on either side of the middle. Looks like a heart. Way cool.

By: halejon

halejon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:18:55 +0000

You mean for individual umpires? Yeah, I’m working on it…I’m kinda skeptical about that 50% thing once you see that they’re not in any way distributed evenly.

By: skyking162

skyking162 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:35:24 +0000

Any chance of showing the umpire strike zones visually like in these graphs? Or maybe just an outline of the cutoff where umps call the pitch a strikeout more than 50% of the time?

By: halejon

halejon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:26:46 +0000

Curse you, Brattain!!! *shakes fist* You’re just don’t like it because I didn’t manage to find a way to bash Boras while I was at it.

Anyway, thanks again for your help. I’m sure it would have gone largely unnoticed in this corner of the net but instead I’m getting the honour of such bigwigs as David Pinto spelling my name wrong! I’ve got some more stuff cooking that should be ready soon.

By: John Brattain

John Brattain — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:06:39 +0000

Wow, that Hardball Times article was the suckiest suck that ever sucked a suck!

Seriously though–terrific work Jon. Top shelf stuff. It’s getting some major love over at Ball-Hype.

I hope it won’t be your last submission (hint hint)

Best Regards

John