Monday, June 17, 2013
Farnsworth: Breaking Down the Swing - Best Hitters of 2012
(www.fangraphs.com)
To counteract the Manmohan Singh Primer… the search for objective knowledge about hitting mechanics.
Read More...I compiled a list of the top 50 hitters from the 2012 season according to Fangraphs’ Batting component of WAR. I then looked at side views of each of these hitters from highlights of the 2012 season in which each player hit a homerun. In the case of switch hitters, I used the side of the plate where they were most successful. In all but Melky Cabrera’s 2012 stats, that described their ...
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1. spycake posted on January 18, 2013 at 05:27 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Nice. Greg did a lot of fine research and was a pleasure to interact with on r.s.bb.
Here's a piece he wrote on pitching to the score for Baseball Prospectus in 1997. Everything on Baseball Prospectus is free today, so it's your chance to read away.
as he was in person.
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