Velocity Spreadsheet

[RockSolid15]

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al3nExpwSGfCdDNhbG9iQnUxSGFidXRabHY5TDJXSHc&hl=en

Have converted this velocity spreadsheet I mentioned a couple of days ago into a Google Spreadsheet. Don't have much experience with stuff like this, so if something is wrong please tell me.

About the spreadsheet:
Sorted by name.
Velocities come from MLB Gameday
These are games I actually charted or scored for Baseball Info Solutions, so this data was used to the various customers of the company.

Any questions, feel free to contact me. I start a job next week, so I may not check this too often fyi.

Should feature every pitcher that pitched in bigs last year (tried to see everyone to have a scouting idea) except Chris Tillman. Somehow Tillman got by me, likely b/c I accidentally considered my inning look at him in the Futures Game as a look.

[RockSolid15]

Re: Velocity Spreadsheet

Also, here are the minor leaguers that I have velocity and pitch data for (either through watching them on MILB.TV where only Durham has the radar gun available or by traveling to minor league games to watch):

Mariano Gomez ATL: FB (88-91), SL (83-85), CU (83-86)

Todd Redmond ATL: FB (86-89), CB (76-82), Split (76-81) Touched 90, 91 and 92 with FB

Brandon Erbe BAL: FB (89-93), SL (78-81), CB (73), CU (83-86)

Eddie Gamboa BAL: FB (87-89), CU (82-84). Touched 91 with FB

Luis Lebron BAL: FB (92-96), SL (81-86), CU (87-89)

Sam LeCure CIN: FB (87-93), CU (81-86), CB (72-76), SL (78-81). Touched 94 with FB

Yohan Pino CLE: FB (86-89), SL (78-82), CB (71-75)

Brooks Brown DET: FB (86-91), SL (78-81), CU (78-81)

Brett Jensen DET: FB (88-92), SL (75-78), CU (72)

James Houser (Now on FLA): FB (82-86), CB (70-73), CU (74-78), Cut (77-80). Touched 87, 88 and 89 with FB.

Fernando Hernandez OAK: FB (89-90), SL (79-81), CB (71-76)

Scott Mathieson PHI: FB (90-99), SL (83-89). A guy that really revved up when he got to 2 strikes on a hitter, which explains the big difference in velocities.
Less then 2 strikes: FB (90-93), SL (83-86). 2 strikes: FB (95-99), SL (89)

B.J. Rosenberg PHI: FB (92-94), SL (81-84)

Joe Savery PHI: FB (87-89), SL (76-81), CU (74-76)

Mike Stutes PHI: FB (89-94), SL (81-85), CB (73-79), CU (82-84)

Vance Worley PHI: FB (87-94), SL (78-83), CU (81-84). Throws both 2-seamer (87-91) and 4-seamer (91-94).

Rafael Cova SF: FB (93-94), SL (82-85)

Tony Pena Jr. SF: FB (87-89), CU (79)

Ben Jukich CIN: FB (85-88), CB (73-76), SL (80-83), CU (78-81)

Oneli Perez STL: FB (89-91), SL (77-80)

Eduardo Sanchez STL: FB (90-92), SL (76-78), CU (81)

Joseph Ortiz TEX: FB (87-90), CB (71), CU (79)

Atahualpa Severino WAS: FB (88-92), SL (77-80)

[RockSolid15]

Re: Velocity Spreadsheet

And a quick reference for my blog:

http://tkbaseball.blogspot.com/2009/12/afl-rising-stars-game-breakdown.html

AFL Rising Stars Game Breakdown (Above)

http://tkbaseball.blogspot.com/2009/07/futures-game-us.html

Futures Game U.S. Roster Breakdown (Above)

http://tkbaseball.blogspot.com/2009/07/futures-game-world.html

Futures Game World Roster Breakdown (Above)

http://tkbaseball.blogspot.com/

Front Page of Blog (Above)

The front page will remain the same forever. Things visible on there include quick minors breakdowns on video I watched (most without a radar gun) and winter league breakdowns.

[ImBaconBeckham]

Re: Velocity Spreadsheet

Nice, but you could have just gotten these from FanGraphs.

Instead of ranges, they use average velocities and they also tell you about pitch movement.

Do you know of a way to tell how much a pitcher throws a ball for strikes? Because if you could get that from GameDay somehow, that'd be great. I can't find that one anywhere else.

[RockSolid15]

Re: Velocity Spreadsheet

Fangraphs uses the data that BIS (info that I and others helped put in) for all their info. Take it from me as someone who watched them input data and let me tell you this, our data was extremely inconsistent. Our charting data was bad after the 1st month.

We had numerous mistakes. People calling pitches for certain pitchers that are just wrong. Jorge De La Rosa is a good example. FanGraphs has him 17 % CU and 15 % SL. He throws many more changeups % wise then that and a lot fewer sliders. The reason pitches get called that way is that he is a rare guy where the pitch f/x don't necessarily help and the Coors Field angle is bad.

Not saying to not use Fangraphs, but it isn't the accurate data that it is widely perceived to be. Most RH pitchers will probably be okay b/c they are all typically easy to chart. But most LH pitchers will have flawed data. (Dan Meyer is another bad data guy, it isn't a SL but a Cutter).

[ImBaconBeckham]

Re: Velocity Spreadsheet

Fangraphs uses the data that BIS (info that I and others helped put in) for all their info. Take it from me as someone who watched them input data and let me tell you this, our data was extremely inconsistent. Our charting data was bad after the 1st month.

We had numerous mistakes. People calling pitches for certain pitchers that are just wrong. Jorge De La Rosa is a good example. FanGraphs has him 17 % CU and 15 % SL. He throws many more changeups % wise then that and a lot fewer sliders. The reason pitches get called that way is that he is a rare guy where the pitch f/x don't necessarily help and the Coors Field angle is bad.

Not saying to not use Fangraphs, but it isn't the accurate data that it is widely perceived to be. Most RH pitchers will probably be okay b/c they are all typically easy to chart. But most LH pitchers will have flawed data. (Dan Meyer is another bad data guy, it isn't a SL but a Cutter).

Interesting.

But can you do anything about strike% for certain pitches though?

[RockSolid15]

Re: Velocity Spreadsheet

I know BIS has the data, but its not free. I don't have any recordings for stuff like that on the info I used.

[ImBaconBeckham]

Re: Velocity Spreadsheet

I know BIS has the data, but its not free. I don't have any recordings for stuff like that on the info I used.

How much is it?

[RockSolid15]

Re: Velocity Spreadsheet

that is a very good question. But it is likely too expensive to be worth it.