Comments on: Patience Produces Power http://skyking162.com/2006/05/patience-produces-power/ baseball with a hint of lime Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:34:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: studes http://skyking162.com/2006/05/patience-produces-power/#comment-109 studes Thu, 11 May 2006 16:05:21 +0000 http://skyking162.com/2006/05/patience-produces-power/#comment-109 Sky, did you see Nate Silver's analysis of this issue? My interpretation of his article is that the impact of a pitcher pitching around a slugger is much higher than you imply. He looked at pitch-specific data for Juan Pierre and Manny Ramirez (I think) and concluded that Pierre has just as good an eye as Manny, but pitchers give Pierre better pitchers to hit. On the other hand, there was also a recent New York Times article about Jason Giambi's approach to the plate that is right in line with your reasoning. Might be a good subject for fangraphs... Sky, did you see Nate Silver’s analysis of this issue? My interpretation of his article is that the impact of a pitcher pitching around a slugger is much higher than you imply. He looked at pitch-specific data for Juan Pierre and Manny Ramirez (I think) and concluded that Pierre has just as good an eye as Manny, but pitchers give Pierre better pitchers to hit.

On the other hand, there was also a recent New York Times article about Jason Giambi’s approach to the plate that is right in line with your reasoning.

Might be a good subject for fangraphs…

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