I’ve been wondering about the same thing. Thank you for doing the quant work, Brian. I speculate that the Mets hitting coaches have a hand in this too. To my eyes, these hitters don’t have a gameplan for their ABs, with the exception of Soto (of course) and, surprisingly, Ewing. If I were the type to do prop bets, I’d wager money that Vientos takes a first pitch fastball and then swings at breaking balls outside the zone. I don’t read the NY papers but it seems like both the hitting coaches and the pitching coach are staying away from the press. It’s seems like Chavez, Barnes, and Hefner were at least somewhat visible whereas Snitker and Willard are not. (Given that I don’t read the local press I could be way off.). Vocal or not, the hitters don’t seem to have a strategy.
It's refreshing to see Ewing's approach. He has some two-strike issues but until that point, he seems to do a good job of identifying balls and strikes, not afraid to take a called strike early in the count when it's not what he wants. He may take and get into an 0-1 count but he's laying off pitcher's pitches, not watching middle-middle strikes.
This is a seriously cool article. Really enjoyed it. Your analysis' never cease to amaze me. I keep asking myself, why is it that Brian can see it, but the Mets cant or they dont look.
In the world of AI and analytics, its not what are the Mets looking at, its what are they doing about it? Obviously its not working.
Even small improvements can have a cumulative effect.
I’ve been wondering about the same thing. Thank you for doing the quant work, Brian. I speculate that the Mets hitting coaches have a hand in this too. To my eyes, these hitters don’t have a gameplan for their ABs, with the exception of Soto (of course) and, surprisingly, Ewing. If I were the type to do prop bets, I’d wager money that Vientos takes a first pitch fastball and then swings at breaking balls outside the zone. I don’t read the NY papers but it seems like both the hitting coaches and the pitching coach are staying away from the press. It’s seems like Chavez, Barnes, and Hefner were at least somewhat visible whereas Snitker and Willard are not. (Given that I don’t read the local press I could be way off.). Vocal or not, the hitters don’t seem to have a strategy.
It's refreshing to see Ewing's approach. He has some two-strike issues but until that point, he seems to do a good job of identifying balls and strikes, not afraid to take a called strike early in the count when it's not what he wants. He may take and get into an 0-1 count but he's laying off pitcher's pitches, not watching middle-middle strikes.
This is a seriously cool article. Really enjoyed it. Your analysis' never cease to amaze me. I keep asking myself, why is it that Brian can see it, but the Mets cant or they dont look.
In the world of AI and analytics, its not what are the Mets looking at, its what are they doing about it? Obviously its not working.
Even small improvements can have a cumulative effect.