DSH 05 - What's So Hard About Contact?
Expert layman Matt Goodwin (@TheCorkedMatt [https://twitter.com/TheCorkedMatt]) and fake baseball economist Alexander Chase (@chase_rate [https://twitter.com/chase_rate]) talk about using contact data to understand pitchers. We talk about HardHit% [http://m.mlb.com/glossary/statcast/hard-hit-rate#:~:text=Statcast%20defines%20a%20'hard%2Dhit,at%2095%20mph%20or%20more.], Hard% and Soft% [https://library.fangraphs.com/offense/quality-of-contact-stats/], better ways to analyze and compare pitchers using contact data, and the potential impact of the new deadened ball. Listen carefully and you'll hear us trip all over our words a couple of times. Okay, you don't have to listen too hard and it's more than a couple of times.\xa0\n\nBall Articles:\xa0 Juiced [https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/02/09/mlb-ball-is-live-daily-cover]\xa0 |\xa0 Deadened [https://theathletic.com/2375121/2021/02/08/mlb-changes-baseball-deadening/]\n\nPitching Article: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/josh-staumont-talks-pitching/\n\nApple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dugout-study-hall/id1551844065] | Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymB3LTyuNB2rjqS0KgUL7] | Google [https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9vbW55LmZtL3Nob3dzL2R1Z291dC1zdHVkeS1oYWxsL3BsYXlsaXN0cy9wb2RjYXN0LnJzcw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP0-fMp-fuAhU8n3IEHZe7CdEQ9sEGegQIARAC] | Stitcher [https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=607444%20] | Amazon [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a50a8c59-7c82-4d13-83fc-54b58f3c8f56/Dugout-Study-Hall] |\xa0TuneIn [https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/Dugout-Study-Hall-p1405477/] | Radio.com [https://www.radio.com/podcasts/dugout-study-hall-47906] | Deezer [https://www.deezer.com/search/dugout%20study%20hall]\n\nTimestamps |\xa0Weak contact, pitchers' perspective (04:00), Numbers of the week; HardHit%, Hard% (04:40), Case Study: Kenta Maeda (06:12), Context for contact (12:24), Case Study: Glasnow + Keuchel (16:15), Extremes to prove the logic (20:46), Reliability of HardHit% / PA (25:41), Case Study: Hyun-jin Ryu (28:42), Case Study: Jon Lester and Soft% (35:43), Contact re: situation + arsenal (42:09), New balls for 2021 (48:27).\n\nJoin PL+ and support the podcast, get an Ad-Free Website and access to our Discord community! [https://www.pitcherlist.com/plus/]\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]