Royals (Greinke) vs Brewers (Houser): 5/13/23 6:10pm

[wibadgers23]

1 minute ago, brewers888 said:

All it took was facing the Brewers to make Greinke look like the ace of years past.

That tends to happen with a lot of struggling pitchers.

[brewers888]

Just now, Brewcrew82 said:

With some assistance from the home plate ump...

Brewers have 3 hits and its not all on the umps.

[brewers888]

Maybe just maybe Yelich is waking up.

[Brewcrew82]

3 minutes ago, brewers888 said:

Brewers have 3 hits and its not all on the umps.

Gotta give Yeli his props, though, right?

[markedman5]

That wasn’t a grounder to the right side either……

[HarryDoyle]

Did I wake up in 2018?

[brewers888]

Hiura at his worst provides more than Voit.

[edfunderburk]

8 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

Gotta give Yeli his props, though, right?

What year is it?

Did we revert to 2019?

[Brewcrew82]

Good god, blue...

[Brewcrew82]

Love Turang's future, but it will be nice to have Urias back in about a month...

[brewers888]

Turang with an absolutely pitiful at bat.

[RobertCrawley]

Not a good AB

[wibadgers23]

I like Turang but that wasn’t even a competitive AB. Yikes.

[BruisedCrew]

2 hours ago, Brewcrew82 said:

That’s not exactly true. His average launch angle is where it was in 2018 when he won MVP. And he has a 120 wRC+ in his last 40 PAs..

I don’t know what to make of a stat like “average launch angle”. 

Is that a median or mean average or what? If it’s a mean, you’d get the same result with a bunch of groundouts and pop ups as you would with a bunch of line drives. 
 

Nobody is going to convince me with numbers that Yelich has been hitting the ball the same as he did in 2018, even in the first half of the season before his blistering second half. He didn’t hit that many HRs, but he hit a lot of line drives to left, left center, and straight away.

Hopefully his recent performance, including the two bombs tonight, is the start of some extended production and not just a flash in the pan like he showed briefly in May last year. 

[brewers888]

Turang is a good defender but I don't think that bat will ever play.

[yourout]

3 minutes ago, brewers888 said:

Turang is a good defender but I don't think that bat will ever play.

He's got the same front foot problem that a lot of Brewers have had recently.

Brett Phillips had it...Huira I had it...

[markedman5]

 

[Brewcrew82]

11 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

I don’t know what to make of a stat like “average launch angle”. 

Is that a median or mean average or what? If it’s a mean, you’d get the same result with a bunch of groundouts and pop ups as you would with a bunch of line drives. 
 

Nobody is going to convince me with numbers that Yelich has been hitting the ball the same as he did in 2018, even in the first half of the season before his blistering second half. He didn’t hit that many HRs, but he hit a lot of line drives to left, left center, and straight away.

Hopefully his recent performance, including the two bombs tonight, is the start of some extended production and not just a flash in the pan like he showed briefly in May last year. 

"Average Launch Angle (aLA) is calculated by dividing the sum of all Launch Angles by all Batted Ball Events."

https://www.mlb.com/glossary/statcast/launch-angle

It's a statistic that measures how much a hitter is elevating the ball on average. Yelich is elevating the ball as much as he did in 2018 as well as hitting the ball as hard on average as he did that season. =a very good combination that hasn't been present over the past few years. 

Statistics are more reliable and objective than the eye test. But you do you.  

[brewers888]

I need to see at least a solid month of results before I buy into a Yelich resurgence but we sure could use it.

[markedman5]

Or we could just celebrate when he does well? Like you know……fans?

[wiguy94]

17 minutes ago, BruisedCrew said:

I don’t know what to make of a stat like “average launch angle”. 

Is that a median or mean average or what? If it’s a mean, you’d get the same result with a bunch of groundouts and pop ups as you would with a bunch of line drives. 
 

Nobody is going to convince me with numbers that Yelich has been hitting the ball the same as he did in 2018, even in the first half of the season before his blistering second half. He didn’t hit that many HRs, but he hit a lot of line drives to left, left center, and straight away.

Hopefully his recent performance, including the two bombs tonight, is the start of some extended production and not just a flash in the pan like he showed briefly in May last year. 

Yeah average launch angle can be a pretty noisy stat because of how much the outlier pop-ups/grounders can impact the average. Sweetspot% is probably a better estimator of quality of LA because it is % of batted balls between 8 and 32 degrees LA. That was at 31.7% for Yelich before today which is between 19/20 and 21/22 for Yelich. Seems like he's in a really good spot at the moment.

[markedman5]

That was nice work by Pete…….impressive 

[Brock Beauchamp]

8 minutes ago, Brewcrew82 said:

"Average Launch Angle (aLA) is calculated by dividing the sum of all Launch Angles by all Batted Ball Events."

https://www.mlb.com/glossary/statcast/launch-angle

It's a statistic that measures how much a hitter is elevating the ball on average. Yelich is elevating the ball as much as he did in 2018 as well as hitting the ball as hard on average as he did that season. =a very good combination that hasn't been present over the past few years. 

Statistics are more reliable and objective than the eye test. But you do you.  

Ease up a bit, man. It’s a legit question to wonder if average launch angle is average or median. And frankly, it’s a good question that I hadn’t considered until right now.

Take for example Max Kepler of the Twins. He’s a lefty bat renown for the IFFB and pounding worms to the right side of the infield. Average those out and he might look pretty good. Put the median on those and it could tell a more accurate story. 

[Brewcrew82]

2 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Yeah average launch angle can be a pretty noisy stat because of how much the outlier pop-ups/grounders can impact the average. Sweetspot% is probably a better estimator of quality of LA because it is % of batted balls between 8 and 32 degrees LA. That was at 31.7% for Yelich before today which is between 19/20 and 21/22 for Yelich. Seems like he's in a really good spot at the moment.

Yeah. You're right. Sweet spot% is probably better. I wasn't making the argument that he's back to MVP Yelich suddenly, but we're seeing some stuff that we haven't seen in a few years with his batted ball data. 

[brewers888]

Voit cannot stay on this roster any longer.