In an innovative new book for baseball fans, Bill James shows the complete stats for pitchers facing batters with five or more at-bats against them. All the 1994 major leaguers are included--as well as a stadium data that tells how players are affected by ballparks. It's the perfect fan companion for watching major league baseball at home or in the ballpark.
Perfect for every baseball fan, this affordably priced, conveniently sized guide gives fans the batter versus pitcher match-ups that are the essence of baseball. Stats on all 1996 major leaguers are included, plus data on stadiums, leader boards, and more.
"STATS Batter Vs. Pitcher Match-Ups!" offers the perfect material needed to watch a game and second-guess the managerial decisions. At your fingertips you can see how batters fared against pitchers. If they have faced each other five or more times in their careers, the data is right in front of you just the way the manager sees it. Want to know who hits best at Wrigley Field? Want to know whom Randy Johnson has the most trouble getting out? Interested in who your favorite slap-hitting second baseman dominates? STATS Batter Vs. Pitcher Match-Ups! gives you all the information you'll need to drive your point home. Features: * Complete match-up stats for players with five or more at-bats against a pitcher * How players perform at each ballpark * The most and least dominating match-ups * Full statistical listings for all qualifying 1998 major leaguers
Complete stats are given for batters with five or more plate appearances versus a pitcher, allowing readers to take an imaginary seat in the dugout where they can second-guess managerial decisions.
Baseball is full of confrontations and these confrontations between a batter and the pitcher is what makes the game. If a formula would be able to predict the probability of the outcome correctly, when they meet, wouldn’t it instill confidence in the minds of the head coach (or you if you are playing the fantasy) to select someone who would be on the winning end? We would like to know for sure, which of our batters are good, and what out of the small amount of possible outcomes, will be the result when he faces this other good pitcher from the team you face next. It seems the past performance of the batter against this pitcher can be a good indicator, and that is what presumably the methods currently used utilize. But the utility of the Batter vs. Pitcher data in predicting the future outcome is a debate going on for quite a time now. The reason for this debate stems from the fact that the sample size of this data is so small that it becomes hard to comprehend when to prefer information you get from a sample size of thousands of atbats against all pitchers vs. maybe a few dozen against specific individuals. The report will discuss one of the famous methods, called Log5 [1] that has been utilized so far when it comes to measuring the outcomes of these confrontations. It also discusses the other methods like logistic regression based on the past data and the new and upcoming Morey-Z. [3]
This up-close look at baseball players and their records shows what hitters did against right-handed and left-handed pitchers; flyball/groundball breakdowns; home/away splits; batter vs. pitcher matchups; and more.