Hard-hit percentage: Angels hitters 6th in MLB, pitchers 29th

[jsnpritchett]

 

[tdawg87]

Not a good sign.

[eligrba]

I don't think it's good for the Angels to be #29 for allowing hard hits, especially with their infield defense.

[Taylor]

What's their eye ratio?

[Stradling]

The staff will improve and the hard hit rate will decrease.  

[Taylor]

2 minutes ago, Stradling said:

The staff will improve and the hard hit rate will decrease.  

Especially if Maddon calls for more intentional walks.

[UndertheHalo]

Bullpen has been good and the starters have been well, we’ll say meh.  Lots of room for improvement.  I do think that they’ll probably be better. 

[Inside Pitch]

31 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

Bullpen has been good and the starters have been well, we’ll say meh.  Lots of room for improvement.  I do think that they’ll probably be better. 

The bullpen has been the biggest source of hard hit contact.  That said, it's been all of 71 innings total so, the data for both batters and pitchers is all just noise.   These numbers will matter more when the sample size includes more teams.

[UndertheHalo]

Just now, Inside Pitch said:

The bullpen has been the biggest source of hard hit contact.  That said, it's been all of 71 innings total so, the data for both batters and pitchers is all just noise.   These numbers will matter more when the sample size includes more teams.

Oh who’d have thunk it.  Not my dumb ass apparently.  Haha. 

[Inside Pitch]

17 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

Oh who’d have thunk it.  Not my dumb ass apparently.  Haha. 

I had no clue either, I looked to see.   

There is a ton of stuff right now that is all over the place.  The one that worries me the most is the huge number of K's by Angels hitters but there is a ton of noise there too given how many of those K's were called strikes that simply weren't strikes.

There are a bunch of numbers I've wanted to tweet out for the site but just haven't because it's all noise so early in the season.

[T.G.]

Damn, it's noisy in here.

[drpiranha]

1 hour ago, Inside Pitch said:

I had no clue either, I looked to see.   

There is a ton of stuff right now that is all over the place.  The one that worries me the most is the huge number of K's by Angels hitters but there is a ton of noise there too given how many of those K's were called strikes that simply weren't strikes.

There are a bunch of numbers I've wanted to tweet out for the site but just haven't because it's all noise so early in the season.

Not surprising. Astros had a 6 HR day against us. I wonder what happens when you take out Tepera's 1st performance when he was tipping his pitches and Mayers and Herget and Moran.

[Inside Pitch]

These projections fluctuate based on in season performances and and attempt to account for the remaining schedule and the relative performances of those teams... So, they are in a constant state of flux.. Still, it's interesting to see what they look like as of today..

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings

PECOTA must really like the underlying data going on.   

[Angel Oracle]

20 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

The bullpen has been the biggest source of hard hit contact.  That said, it's been all of 71 innings total so, the data for both batters and pitchers is all just noise.   These numbers will matter more when the sample size includes more teams.

Mainly the middle relievers, of which only Ortega has looked good enough so far

Iglesias, Tepera, Loup, and Bradley are as expected so far.

Detmers is the only starter with questionable numbers so far.  Time to send him to SLC to work on command, and put Barria in the rotation?

It’s only been a little over a year of pro pitching for Detmers.

Edited April 17, 2022 by Angel Oracle

[tdawg87]

17 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

These projections fluctuate based on in season performances and and attempt to account for the remaining schedule and the relative performances of those teams... So, they are in a constant state of flux.. Still, it's interesting to see what they look like as of today..

https://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings

PECOTA must really like the underlying data going on.