BA had a Stuff+ article (BA Stuff+ link here) where we placed in the middle / bottom of most of the top metrics. What jumps out is that we are 1st in almost all spin related metrics, along with horizontal movement. Where we fall off is the velocity, which seems to be the biggest influence on the actual “Stuff+” number.
In roughly the same week they came out with an article on production from players young for the league (BA Young Production link here). We are blowing teams out of the water here, and that’s with their specification of “young player” being a 26 year old in AAA. If you narrowed that age for being “young” down even more, I imagine that spread between us and the rest of MiLB is shocking.
I’m just an idiot fan, but putting two and two together… This seems like a canary in the coal mine.
Our arms are the youngest by far in the league, pitch the most innings, have crazy ball manipulation data, and have the results already going for them. Everything seems to be setting up for something huge if the velocities come around.
Not sure I gave you an actual question here, Spencer, but I guess it would be “Are you taking away the same things from this data? Just how much are you buying in on what we are up to?”
Sorry for being long winded. I’m avoiding all Packer stuff on the internet at the moment and this helped a little bit.