Originally Posted by
Metaphysicist
This is some pretty dumb cherry-picking. Even if you think these kinds of stats are somehow more telling than the actual fact that one guy has hit better than the other, the poster left out some pretty important information:
Launch angle
2019: 14.2 % for Swanson v. 17.4% for Torres.
Career: 11.7% for Swanson v. 18% for Torres.
LD:FB Ratio
2019: 1.05 for Swanson v. 0.81 for Torres.
Career: 1.24 for Swanson v. 0.80 for Torres.
HR/FB
2019: 12.6% for Swanson v. 21.5% for Torres
Career: 9.8% for Swanson v. 19.9% for Torres
Both guys hit for blah average, both have blah BB/K ratios. The main, huge, obvious difference between Dansby and Torres is that broadly speaking Torres hits bombs and Dansby hits liners (which this guy masks by adding FB% + LD% together because... reasons?). That's not "luck" or "noise." (Dansby was probably unlucky on liners, though). Bombs > Liners, so the guy who does the former is better, all things equal. Looking at the underlying stats and just ignoring this is silly. This is something I could figure out using stats invented in 1869. Let's not miss the forest for the trees here.
Besides, if we are gonna play this game, let's do it all the way:
Barrel %
Swanson 2019: 10.1%
Mookie Betts 2017: 4.5%
Launch Angle
Swanson '19: 14.2%
Betts '17: 14.1%
Exit Velo
Swanson: 89.8
Betts: 88.4
SweetSpot %
Swanson: 32.1
Betts: 32.5
Hard Hit %
Swanson: 41.6
Betts: 37.9
LD% + FB%
Swanson: 57.8%
Betts: 46.4%
Dansby for MVP. I'm in.