Ball Going Through the Bat

[dickey1331]

From my understanding replay doesn't show every frame and that plays apart of it. I know a few years ago someone brought that up and that's what was discovered.

[KBLover]

Quote: Originally Posted by canes21

We're using Timing/Directional hitting. My players are doing exactly what is supposed to happen with good timing on mistake pitches. His players are missing them with this issue 50% of the time which kills his offense, dampers the experience of the franchise, and just leaves us confused. Why does my 77 contact player put evvery 3-1 fastball in play when I time it up, but his 88 contact player swings and misses half of the time when the timing is good?

Isn't there a rating for that? I believe it's Plate Vision?

I know Chris Davis is prone to that on my team even vs RHP where he has an 81 contact. Stanton also - and both have mediocre Plate Vision.

I play on Directional and I think of it like this (not sure if it's accurate, but it makes sense in my head):

Contact = BABIP/Likelihood of hard contact when he connects.

Discipline = Likelihood of chasing balls (and maybe pitches on the edges in general?)

Plate Vision = Contact rate in general.


So high contact and low vision would be a guy who hits its pretty solid when he makes contact, but is also prone to being fooled on pitches if the pitcher can set him up/has good movement/changes speeds, etc. Ex: Davis hit over .300 with 50+ HR for me, but also led the team in K's with 139.

Low contact and high vision makes for a guy who won't swing and miss much but that contact is probably not ideal. Choppers, lazy flies, routine grounders, etc. Ex: Hechavarria hits like a wet noodle, but he makes a ton of contact on my team. Has a garbage BA, a bad BABIP (.260) but doesn't K.

High contact and high vision is a scary combo. Puts the bat on the ball a lot and does so for good hits (line drives, hard grounders and good trajectory fly balls). Yelich is like that for me - had a .361 BABIP. Carlos Santana vs LHP has 99 contact now and it actually helped him hit more HR (ended up with 30) because his Vision/Contact combo meant that any time I timed it well, he was hitting the ball with force.


Again, not sure if it's accurate, but it seems to play out when I look at the stats.