Pitch Type & Velocity
I put up something new today which I think is very cool. Under each pitcher page, in the very bottom table, you can now see the percentage of each type of pitch a player threw and its average velocity. These stats are available from 2005-2007 and will be updated daily when the season starts.
Some quick things to note:
-The average velocity is in parenthesis next to the % of the pitch thrown.
-The percent of any known pitch type is a percentage of only known pitch types thrown. XX is an unidentified pitch type and is taken as a percentage of all pitches thrown.
-PO are pickoff attempts and are calculated as a percentage of all pitches thrown.
A huge thanks goes out to Baseball Info Solutions for allowing me to do this. This is a work in progress and there’s more that can be done with stats like these so feel free to chime in with suggestions.
Update: I’ve removed SW (Screwball), FO (Forkball), and SI (Sinker) and moved them into SF (Split-fingered Fastball). There were just so few pitches categorized as those three, it didn’t make sense for them to have their own bucket.
FB: Fastball, CT: Cutter, CB: Curveball, SL: Slider, CH: Changeup, SF: Split-fingered Fastball, KN: Knuckleball, XX: Unidentified, PO: Pickoff Attempt
dan said,
March 10, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
Will this be added to the leader boards too?
Joe Aiello said,
March 10, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
Just what I need. Another excuse to look at stats. =)
David Appelman said,
March 11, 2008 @ 11:38 am
Yep, it will be added to the leaderboards.
tricer said,
March 12, 2008 @ 8:57 am
I really like this new feature, but I’m unsure what the abbreviations mean.
FB : fastball
SL : slider
CU: curve?
CB: ??
CH: change?
Can someone please clarify?
tricer said,
March 12, 2008 @ 11:40 am
Ahhh, nevermind. I see that CU is cutter, CB is curveball, and CH is changeup.
Looked at Andy Pettitte’s page to figure this out.
Al said,
March 12, 2008 @ 10:39 pm
FANTASTIC! Hands down, one of my favorite sites on the web already just got down right addictive with this new feature. Keep up the solid work and thanks again for always making my day a little brighter.
Tom G, ballssticksstuff.com said,
March 13, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Kudos, this is a great tool added to a wonderful toolbox [wait, that doesn’t sound right…]
tangotiger said,
March 13, 2008 @ 9:38 am
Fantastic!
Note: I’d make cutter CT, as CU can be confused for curve,or ChangeUp.
tangotiger said,
March 13, 2008 @ 10:16 am
Any chance you can put average speed of each pitch?
David Appelman said,
March 13, 2008 @ 10:18 am
Tom, it’s already there. In parentheses next to the % of the pitch. Going to switch CU to CT as well, good idea!
studes said,
March 15, 2008 @ 8:18 am
I agree that this is fantastic. I was wondering if the major league averages are listed anywhere, for comparison’s sake?
David Appelman said,
March 15, 2008 @ 11:56 am
I’ve never looked at the major league averages, but it’s a good idea. I’ll run them when I get done with the leaderboards. On that note, Pitch Type should be in the leaderboard section sometime tomorrow afternoon.
Dave said,
August 12, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
This is amazing! It answers a lot of questions I had about pitchers. Any way to include their max speed on the fastball? Do 2-seamers count in the fastball column? Is is known how much 2-seam fastballs bring down the overall fastball speed? Sorry, just curious.