STARTERS: Very early Statcast changes, 2020
Aug 22 2020
Statcast metrics can help to explain whether a pitcher's early stats and skills are legitimate.
This offseason, we looked at the correlation between several Statcast metrics and the stats and skills posted by SP:
Let's take a closer look at some noteworthy Statcast surgers from 2019 to 2020.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Dylan Bundy (RHP, LAA) has been victimized by high levels of hard contact in the past, especially chronic bouts of gopheritis. He has a reasonable 1.1 HR/9 and 14% hr/f so far in 2020. Credit a much lower average exit velocity for his gains in both ERA and HR/9. It has dropped from 88.2 mph in 2019 to 86.0 mph so far in 2020. He has...
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