Who Gets the Calls at Home? Part II
Posted by Sean Forman on September 17, 2009
Same columns as the earlier post, but from the pitching team's perspective.
Team Lk_hm Lk_rd Bls_hm Bls_rd %L_hm %L_rd HFA HFA_hi_lev SFG 2136 1967 3967 4104 35.00% 32.40% 2.60% 0.80% PHI 2093 1894 4056 3975 34.04% 32.27% 1.77% 0.39% CIN 1972 1948 3995 4265 33.05% 31.35% 1.69% 2.26% STL 2073 1829 3776 3581 35.44% 33.81% 1.63% 3.97% HOU 2115 1799 4116 3767 33.94% 32.32% 1.62% 4.62% MIN 2016 1727 4021 3705 33.39% 31.79% 1.60% 2.46% TOR 1919 1859 4016 4136 32.33% 31.01% 1.32% 0.79% PIT 1690 1703 3831 4107 30.61% 29.31% 1.30% 1.37% WSN 1890 1835 4082 4206 31.65% 30.38% 1.27% 0.84% CLE 2032 1879 4179 4063 32.72% 31.62% 1.09% -1.75% SDP 2135 1820 4425 3966 32.55% 31.46% 1.09% 2.13% NYM 1895 1812 4162 4188 31.29% 30.20% 1.09% 1.65% ATL 1973 2038 3728 4028 34.61% 33.60% 1.01% 2.28% DET 1899 1829 4112 4140 31.59% 30.64% 0.95% 1.65% LAD 2090 1906 4223 4007 33.11% 32.23% 0.87% 2.93% TBR 1893 1992 3823 4133 33.12% 32.52% 0.60% 1.06% MIL 1921 1885 4190 4215 31.44% 30.90% 0.53% -0.47% CHC 1981 1864 4230 4065 31.90% 31.44% 0.46% -0.40% LAA 1972 1995 4122 4246 32.36% 31.97% 0.39% -0.06% KCR 1987 1836 4414 4145 31.04% 30.70% 0.34% 0.84% BOS 1946 2032 4010 4253 32.67% 32.33% 0.34% -0.95% FLA 2130 1841 4482 3919 32.21% 31.96% 0.25% -1.86% ARI 2001 1948 4054 3991 33.05% 32.80% 0.25% 0.90% BAL 1975 1884 4238 4073 31.79% 31.63% 0.16% -1.16% NYY 2188 1920 4566 4035 32.40% 32.24% 0.15% -1.12% OAK 1813 2011 3919 4366 31.63% 31.54% 0.09% 1.44% CHW 1901 1787 4144 3892 31.45% 31.47% -0.02% 1.75% SEA 1788 1845 4104 4224 30.35% 30.40% -0.05% -1.01% TEX 2041 1831 4518 3870 31.12% 32.12% -1.00% 1.48% COL 1732 1841 3941 3965 30.53% 31.71% -1.18% -1.92%
Actually on the face of it there may be a park effect here. As the Rockies and Giants had almost the same spread in the opposite direction. Pitchers get more calls in San Fran and hitters get more calls in Colorado? Any ideas why?
September 17th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Which parks are the Questec parks?
September 17th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Nice work. I have no idea about SF, but I would guess that breaking pitches not breaking in the thin air of Denver might have something to do with it. Visiting pitchers might either be cautious about trying to throw a breaking ball over the plate for a strike or (more likely) they don't quite know where their breaking ball is going.
September 17th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I think questec has 100% coverage now.
September 18th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Maybe it's a cold-weather influence in SF?