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Okay, fair enough. How about Aaron Bummer, the MLB leader in exit velocity and barrel percentage combined. His favorite pitch is his sweeper, 82 mph. Check out his pitch movement profile.
singular example though..
of 41,087 curveballs across MLB, there were 5324 whiffs, 34.4 Hard Hit, 7.8% barrel per batted ball event.
of 38,227 sweepers across MLB, there were 5411 whiffs, 28.7 Hard Hit, 7.1% Barrel/BBE.
of 100,381 sinkers, 6301 whiffs, 43.2 hard hit, 6.7% Barrel/BBE
Is that a good breakout? I'm not even sure.
of 10,427 pitches with Vertical Movement w/o gravity greater than 20": 1458 whiffs, 40.4 Hard Hit, 11.6 Barrel/BBE
of 7217 pitches with Vertical Movement w/o gravity less than -15, 962 whiffs, 34.6 Hard Hit%, 6.1 Barrel/BBE.
of 69522 pitches with movement away from the batter greater than 15, 8431 whiffs, 34.9 Hard Hit, 6.5 Barrel/bbe
of 52497 pitches with movement towards the batter greater than 15, 4734 whiffs, 37.6 Hard Hit, 5.4 Barrel
Does seem like it's a little harder to square up a pitch moving sideways versus up and down?
The stats and graphs they have on these pitchers are insane. And is that guy's last name really Bummer? That had to be rough growing up with that name.
You could spend hours every day digging into this trying to find nuggets of information, scouting, value, etc. And teams probably do have a half dozen guys basically doing just that. It's wild really.