Pretty much all the good names in the GCL lineup today. Maitan, Gutierrez, Waters, Severino, Encarnacion, Soto.
I throw a crap-ton at Machado and trade assets for Quintana or Archer.I hate tying up a ton of money to one player but with Acuna, Albies, Swanson, Inciarte all cheap and cost controlled, I'd strongly consider making a run at Machado or Donaldson.
The $$ is the issue. I wonder how willing they'd be to eat half.
Is anyone familiar with the process that calculates outfield throw velocities? Never read or heard it explained? Calculated from video or radar guns?
Home run No. 2 for Drew Waters. The box score said the homer was to left, and it was against a RHP so likely an opposite field homer. Saw on Twitter during Saturday's game that one of his doubles was also an opposite field shot off the wall.
StatCast uses radar to track every ball (including spin rates/axis), and every player, for every play. They literally have all the data required to evaluate everything from batted ball profiles, to pitch velocity and movement, to defensive positioning, to defensive range, to throw velocity and accuracy, to base running efficiency, to who backed up which plays correctly.
It's all there. Right now dozens of software guys are busily writing algorithms to process this data to produce metrics that are useful and illustrative of what players are actually doing on the field for any given play.
MLB teams are in the process of hiring armies of analysts to sift through this data. It's too bad they only pay them $50k per year and rely on the fact that these guys want to be GMs.
I would absolutely love to get my hands on that data set.
I have a hard time picturing the equipment that would measure it and how it would be set up. That would be a neat 8 minute segment for someone to produce. I'd watch.
Who was it that was big on this guy before/during the draft?
Was is ZB?
Whoever it was, good call so far!
Yeah I was beating the Waters drum. I never thought he'd fall and then I had my doubts we would actually pick him. But he looks great so far.
Maitan breaks the tie with a go-ahead, two-run double in the bottom of the eighth inning. He's 2-5 today.
Maitan hitting .421 with a 15% K rate.
I'm ready for his first HR.