Plate Discipline Leaderboards
All the stats made available yesterday in the player pages are now on the leaderboards.
Interesting to see the afore mentioned Nick Johnson with the second best O-Swing% (percent of pitches swung at outside the strike zone) this season. He truly does have great plate discipline.
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
Ichiro!’s Z-Swing% is 98.53. Goodness.
Jason, that’s Z-Contact%, not Z-Swing%, so it isn’t quite so crazy. Lot’s of guys above 96%.
Also, I noticed the 11 guys with the lowest Zone% are all Angels and Dodgers. That seems really weird to me. It can’t be coaching these are the pitches that are getting thrown to these guys. I assume that will fade as the season goes on, but it’s really weird. I can’t imagine it’s related to the Los Angeles area. Food for though
Duh, thanks Larry. I meant to write ‘z-contact’. Still, it’s crazy that some guys swing AND make contact at 96%+ of pitches in the strike zone.
That’s interesting about the Angels and Dodgers. The Angels seem to be a ‘walk less, run more’ club which means maybe they’re swinging more, trying to put the game in motion. Opposing pitchers recognize this and won’t throw them anything in the strike zone. I certainly wouldn’t throw anything near Vlad, not that it matters. I don’t have a clue what’s up with the Dodgers though.
I’m looking into the Dodgers/Angels stats. They do seem a little weird.