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Originally Posted by Curve Ball Dave
Yes, only statcast can tell us that a pop up that barely clears the the short left field wall down the line at Minute Maid that would have been a fly out anywhere else, or a routine fly the 25mph wind blew over the fence at Wrigely were cheap....oooook. Thank goodness for statcast, we never would have known. I'm sure the Giants didn't know that balls that went 260' for home runs at the Polo Grounds were cheap. They needed statcast to tell them that. Poor souls. I'm convinced!
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I'm not talking about the Giants or the Astros or the Cubs. I'm talking about you or I doing this without watching each home run and each deep fly ball out that is a home run 90% of the time.
I continually am pouring through the statcast data on baseball savant's website. You give me a player name, and I can tell you a lot more than you can instantly, without having to go through every video of every at bat. I can tell you if he's slumping or unlucky or doing something completely unsustainable in any short amount of time, when sample sizes are too small to determine anything for regular statistics. I can find severely underperforming players and trade for them on a fantasy baseball team, knowing that his performance will almost assuredly improve. I can trade players who will never be able to keep up with what they are doing while their value is highest.
You go ahead and only read your box scores and see who is better informed between the two of us.