WEBVTT - How to Fix the MLB Home Run Derby 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.120 Hello, and welcome to Jimmy's Three Things. Today we will 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.680 be talking about the Home Run Derby. I've created a 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:10.120 new system. It's awesome maybe. And then there's another thing 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:15.080 called Scatterplot Outliers, and then there's a third thing called 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.160 All Star Game Fun Facts. Jimmy's Three Things is a 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.600 production of Dan Patrick Productions, John Boy Media, and Workhouse Media. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.680 But the Cowboy had on and take it off and 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.600 we're off the first thing. Okay, Home Run Derby. We 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.760 were there. The ending was cool. The rest of it 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:33.800 wasn't that great. I've heard that people that watched it 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.800 on the broadcast also said it was rather lackluster. The 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.160 in stadium experience was pretty dull for a long time, 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.920 and there's a couple factors that I don't know if 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.960 these are the factors. But this is my third Derby 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:53.200 I've been to, and the previous format with no ball 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:57.960 limit was amazing for the in stadium experience, but I 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.320 understand the broadcast was really hard because you couldn't track 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.600 the balls. They couldn't they couldn't track two home runs 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.160 at the same time, and two balls would be the 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:07.840 in the air at once. So for the broadcast, it 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.559 was tough. That's where they wanted to slow it down 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.840 for the d stadium experience. When we were in Denver, 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.160 and then when we were in LA it was unbelievable. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.919 It was genuinely I felt like how some grown adults 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.960 feel at WWE or how little kids feel at Disney 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.240 World those two years, because it was just like, oh 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:32.880 oh oh, that one. That one. Only having one lefty 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.640 kept an entire half of the stadium dormant and quiet. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.040 So again that's for the in stadium experience. I think 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.000 you need a bigger balance. I don't know if anyone 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.360 cares about that. On TV, and certain stadiums with their 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.400 money prize involved, you're not going to be able to 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:51.760 do that as well, because if it's a you know, Fenway, 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.960 you're gonna want to have a ariety pop them over 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.680 the monster, so you can't really do that. So those 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.480 are some of the things. And then the star power. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.280 I don't think we had any balls hit over four 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.880 hundred and seventy five feet. You need guys hit in moonshots. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.720 You need guys guffawd. You know, I remember all the 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.639 reactions to Judge hitting them in twenty seventeen or Alonzo 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:15.400 in twenty eighteen or Show Hey, Show on the third deck. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.760 Another situation is I think that ballpark just kind of 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:25.160 shrinks homers because in right field there's no second deck. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:30.079 It's way too high when you have because that first 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.400 row of seats in right field is like fifty seats deep. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.040 When you have those facades like the Yankee Stadium second 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:44.240 deck or Philly or Astros, you know that ball lands 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.840 in that second or third deck before it starts to 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.919 come down. When they start to come down, your imagination 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.400 of how far it would have gone gets ruined. So 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.960 I figured out a system. I thought about how they 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.920 do hard knocks. How they do hard knocks, there's like 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.760 criteria for who gets chosen, and this is baked into 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.480 a contract with the league and the teams that they 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.079 all sign. And no appearance in the past ten seasons 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:11.720 of hard knocks, So if you haven't been on it 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.560 in the last ten years, you're eligible to be chosen. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.560 You a coach can't be in their first year. So 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.320 if you have a first year coach not eligible to 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.720 be chosen for hard knocks and no playoff appearance in 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.440 the previous two seasons. So two stinkers in a row. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.840 You can't say no. If you have those, you can 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.919 say no, which does wheedle it down a little bit. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.640 So my suggestion, which is never gonna happen because the 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.960 negotiations would be awful. But in the next CBA, this 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.000 is what I think would help the event get star 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:47.200 power there. If i'm MLB and MLB's Players Association, here's 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.520 my criteria that I wrote down. I actually didn't write 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.080 down anywhere, so I'll just say it. Okay, you take 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.360 if you finished in the top ten for home runs 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.640 the year before you're eligible, will be chosen. If you 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.680 are in the top ten in Major League Baseball for 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.240 home runs the current year in the first half, you're 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.040 eligibly chosen. I think that's gonna be weed you down 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:16.000 to about fifteen guys. Then you have the caveats. If 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.440 you've done it in the last two years, three years, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.880 whatever that would be, you can say nope, not I 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.800 I already did it two years ago. I already did 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.480 it last year. I don't want to do it this year. Maybe, 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.159 like if you had an il stint in the month 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:37.280 of May, June or July, you don't have to do it. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:45.360 Maybe if your wife's sick. You don't have to do it. 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.800 That's where I tried to ask Trevor Pluff and other people, like, 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.279 what are more caveats for people to say no? Because 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.240 I want the players to agree to it. And then 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.200 if you do get chosen, you should get a bonus 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.520 or you should get a donation to your charity. So okay, 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.000 So that's the one thing. The other thing that needs 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.720 to happen in general for the Derby, I think, and 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.240 if you were to do this, it has to be 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.960 less rounds and less swings. These guys, that's the most 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.599 swings they've done in a two to three hour period ever. 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.920 And their bodies. It's a little risky for the obliques, 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.880 for the shoulders. Judge got hurt in twenty seventeen. So 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.600 you got to strength the field to six guys top 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:29.600 three advance those three go win or wins two rounds. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.200 May it a two hour two and a half hour event. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:37.679 It's too long. It like really doles and loses its luster. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:42.120 So I put this into practice. I went and I 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.080 got last year's top ten homer run winners Matt old 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.240 Or top ten in homers, Matt Olsen, Kyle Schwarber, pet 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:54.839 Alonzo Shoheo Tani, Ronald Leccuno, Junior Marcel Ozuna, Mookie Betts, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:06:00.320 Adolice Garcia, Luis Robert, Aaron Judge, Austin Riley, A lot 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.039 of those names we've seen do the derby, which is cool. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.800 Did Louis Robert do it? He did, right, so I 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.320 can change his name to red all right. So then 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:14.920 this year, first half of the season, Aaron, Judge, Shoeo, Tani, Marcelo, Zuna, 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:24.000 repeat names, Gunner Henderson, Athal Ralphaeld Devers, Josh Naylor, Christian Walker. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.320 So I went and I found out which guys have 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.200 done it in the last two years. They did it 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.960 last year. So last year, A Dooli's Garcia, he's out 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.919 unless you make a clause that hometown kid needs to 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:36.840 be in it. If you're if you're hosting and you're 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.359 leading your team at Homers, you're in the fucking derby. 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.599 We need you grow the game be exciting. Because when 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.880 a Doolie's Garcia got announced and the stadium went crazy 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:48.360 all of a sudden, it was like, oh shit, I 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.360 want to root for him because that's a much better atmosphere. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.000 So you do need a hometown kid. But he did 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.960 it last year, so we could say no. Mookie Betts 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:58.880 did it last year, so he can say no. Pete 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.159 Alonso did it last year, so he could say no. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.600 He's not gonna say no. Jay Ram did it in 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.360 two thousand and twenty twenty two, so he could say no. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.720 Juan Soto did it in twenty twenty two, so he 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.400 could say no. Luis Robert did it in twenty twenty two, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.720 so he can say no. Ronald Acunyo Junior, Kyle Schwarber 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.520 could say no. And if you want to watch on YouTube, 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.120 I have these names on screen which would be easier 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.320 to keep track of, So I chose six guys. Guess 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.560 what show? Hey, you're in the Derby. Congrats, we got 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.160 some money for your charity. Eat bacon, watch it and 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.640 have fun. You can bet on it if he wants 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:39.120 prison Bets, salt, Becketts and stuff. Aaron judged you're in 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.040 the Derby. Wow, we just three x the viewership. All 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.840 of Japan is now watching. We're growing the game, so 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.920 they're in it. They can't say no. This is agreed upon. CBA. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.600 Did it complain to them fake an injury? Do what 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.280 you gotta do, You're in it. I chose Pete Alonzo 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.360 because he's not gonna say no. Come on, it's Pete. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.720 So you got those three guys. And then I also 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.800 chose Gunner Henderson Young fun promote the game You're in it. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.760 I chose just Naylor because I think he hits long, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.520 high homers and he's like a spitfire of a human, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.760 like that'd be really fun to watch. That's five. If 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.040 you want the hometown kid, Adolie Garcia say if it 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.800 wasn't in Texas, you know the other options here that 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:29.360 can't say no. Raphael Devers can't say no. Santander can't 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.240 say no. Bryce Arberg, sorry shoe if he said Bryce 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.840 Arbrough screen, he didn't lead. He's not in the top ten, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.680 so like obviously he's a big star, so there could 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:42.160 be caveats, but this would guarantee you studs that are 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.640 performing well and some stars because the top home runs 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:50.240 a row stars here. So Matt Olsen can't say no, show, 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.080 he can't say no, Judge can't say no. You've already 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.400 got a better field than this year. You've already got 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.520 more pop, more star power, longer home runs. Alonso can 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.920 say no, he's not going to. Marcelo Zuna can't say no, 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:08.600 but everyone else can. Austin Riley can't say no, Gunnar 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:14.960 Henderson can't say no, Sotandar Devers, Nailor Walker. That's what 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.920 I'd propose. It doesn't need to be that. You know, 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:22.120 we can change the criteria. You know this year's top fifteen. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.040 If you think you need more options, you know, you 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.520 can allow guys to submit themselves, and then the league thinks, yeah, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.960 he's a star, he's better, let's get him. Bryce Arper 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:32.720 wants to do it. They're not gonna say no to him. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.120 But this kind of guarantees it. And it all starts 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.240 with like they agree to this at the CBA and 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.920 the players who are having great seasons, no, this is 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.240 on the table and they can't say no. And you're 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.319 just guaranteed to get guys who will hit long balls 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.840 and star power in there and then their shorter rounds 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.600 because that's better for like consumption energy of the stadium, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.040 which then builds the whole atmosphere. Shout out to Greg Gamsinger. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.439 He was going crazy the whole night. Someone pointed it 0:09:58.480 --> 0:09:59.760 out to me. He was like, man, he's still got 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:01.040 a li energy. I was like, he's been doing this 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.440 whole night. That's nuts because how many times you say, 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.439 come on, guys, let's hear it. Because the stadium was 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.439 just falling asleep. Man, come on, guys, let's here pick 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.480 them up. We need you to pick them up Texas. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.320 That was maybe every ten minutes on the in house PA. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.320 So that's my system. Let me know what you think, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.440 and let me know, like what other caveats should be there. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.880 If your team's in first place, they get to say no. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.160 That kind of stinks because you know you want that. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.880 The other thing would be some stadiums. It's really not fair, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.120 especially take away the cash prize. You know, you pay 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.560 a million dollars to the winner right now, just divide 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.760 that between the six of them or whatever, like, you know, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.640 two hundred and fifty grand. That's not a lot to them. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.160 Maybe it goes to their charity and then they get 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.600 the paid off and enjoy, you know, doing good deeds. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.480 Two hundred and fifty thousand times six or one point five, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.680 all right, so it's one million to the winner right now. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.439 Instead it's one point five divided amongst the six contestants 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.600 to their charities or to them whatever they want, so 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.640 it's not for nothing. And when you take out the 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:07.200 cash prize, now you can tight loosen some of the 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.480 rules and standards and say, we want three lefties, we 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.480 want three righties, we want the whole stadium buzzing, and 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.640 we're gonna rotate them. So the whole right field section 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.199 isn't just asleep because we were sleepy out there. It 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.360 wasn't for Grey. Come on, not get up, come on, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.280 let we need your help. We need your help. We 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.240 need help. Shit's boring. So that's how I fix it. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.360 That's my suggestion to fix the Derby is make a 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.040 system like the hard Knock system. Put it in the CBA. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.320 The players agree to it, they're gonna ask for some 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.720 more carve outs. They're gonna say, if you've ever done 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.400 it before, you don't have to do it again. And 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.880 maybe we're fine with that, but maybe you want show 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.360 Hey and Aaron Judge in it, okay, because I think 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.280 the million dollar prize, I don't know if they wanted 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.480 to they wanted to incentivize the big stars because now 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.600 it's money. But I actually think what they did was 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.080 anyone that's got a three hundred million dollars contract two 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:06.199 hundred million. Our contract isn't gonna go enter these sweepstakes 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.959 to steal money from the dude making five hundred grand. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.160 I think the big dudes are actually like nah man like, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.320 I don't want to take that away from Gunner Henderson, 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.240 who can double his salary in one night. Let's let 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.200 them and I want to let them shine. I want 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.520 to let them grow, which is great. You need to grow. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.800 You need to grow new personalities and new players like 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:34.360 Gunner Henderson. But imagine if show Hey was up right 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:39.040 after it, right before Gunner Henderson. Now who's got two 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:43.680 million new Japanese followers? Gunner Henderson. That's how you grow 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.600 the game. And you put Judge up, and then following 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:54.680 him is whoever else did it? Yes night, Bobby Witt Right, 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.800 So there you go. That's the first thing we've discussed it. 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.880 It's over with. We're gonna move on to the next thing, 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:07.040 which is Scott scatterplot Outliers, which I deleted, deleted all 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.360 my leaderboards here, and I was I was hoping I 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.160 was gonna run into more fun shit. So what I 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.920 did was uh And if you're on YouTube, you can 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.840 see a custom leaderboard stat cast. I was interested in 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.640 some some some stuff, and I'll show you real quick. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.160 So I was just making a bunch of scatterplots, plots, 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:35.840 most of them off bat speed or age. I'll show you, like, Okay, 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:40.079 we're gonna do a scatter plot. And on the X access, Uh, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:46.440 we're gonna do age, all right. And then on the 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.640 Y access and I don't know if I'm using Y 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.320 and X correctly here, I'm gonna be honest with you. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.440 But on the bottom one, the horizontals at why so 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.160 maybe I had said that right, I don't think so, 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.000 I don't know. Wait, which one's across for the people listening, 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.920 X is the well people listening came to see it, 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.320 so they don't care, all right, ex access is age. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.480 And then I went to all the slash lines and 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.040 just so wanted to see, like, is there any any 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.640 through line here? And guess what with age comes the 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.960 worst batting average over time slightly It's like two point 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:23.320 fifty at twenty years old, and uh, then it goes 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.280 down to like two thirty for the first half of 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.160 the season. And I was like, all right, so your 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.480 average declines as you get older. We all know that. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.320 How about slugging that declines as well as you get older. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.120 So far in the first half of the year, so ops, 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:45.320 that declines. But check this out on base percentage stays 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.080 pretty fucking neutral the whole entire way. Old guys can 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.120 see well. So that's just an example. And then I 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.400 was finding outliers. So I liked doing bat speed because 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.480 that's the new stat that we're tracking that people don't 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:01.960 know about. So I wanted to do bat speed versus 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.920 K percentage, which is the the sharpest. I wanted to 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.000 just find one that was like the sharpest trend. And 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.880 I think everyone this makes sense. The faster you swing 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.840 the bat, the more likely you are to k because 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:20.960 you're in less control, right, So some outliers here, this 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.680 bubble is an outlier. Kevin Bigio, he swings the bat 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.240 pretty slowly, sixty six mile power and average, and he 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.480 kays a lot. And then this one's probably the best 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:36.240 seventy six mile per hour bat speed, but only k's 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:40.440 out of sixteen percent clip you're on Alvarez, So those 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.640 are kind of the outliers of this in a way. 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:48.360 And then walk percentage for bat speed. Also, the faster 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.880 you swing the better you are at taking a base. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.040 I thought that was somewhat interesting, and then I kind 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.360 of thought about it more. I was like, well, I thought, 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.800 if you were swinging wild, real fast all the time, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.680 you're probably walking less because you sound out of control 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:11.040 to me, you know, But I think they have that yes, yes, yes, 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.600 swing and they know no, not it a lot and 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:19.240 don't swing. So actually the chart trends up you swing faster, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:25.760 you're gonna walk more unless you are Luisa Rais. And 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:31.240 that's when I was like, oh, yeah, contact hitters swing slow, 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.000 and they know they can get bat to ball, so 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.400 they put the ball in play more so they don't 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:43.400 get so they swing more. They're not waiting for the 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.080 perfect pitch like guys who are looking to slug and pop. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.720 So that made a little more sense when I put 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:55.040 it into personspective. But then you got Giencarlo Stanton, who 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.520 doesn't walk a lot and as the most bat speed 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.960 he's a big outlier in that one. Sprint speed was 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.320 the same realization for me right here. Okay, so now 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.800 I'm going to change the X access to sprint speed, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.800 all right, And if you're fast, get on base so 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.240 you can get on get over right, that's what you 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.720 would think. You would think that the speedy guys walk 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:20.160 more buckers what they walk. 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:25.600 Less, because if you aren't, if you've got speed, like 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.320 Ellie daily Cruz, just put that baby in play, put 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.840 the pressure on them. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:36.280 So I was wrong on my general assumption. There some 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:43.560 outliers would be Cosmani Grendl and Martine Maldonado. They are 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.520 very very slow and they don't walk it all bad combo, 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.600 bad combo. The best at this Elie de la Cruz, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.000 he walks a good amount and he's very fast. Bobby 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.359 Witt Junior, he walks less than average, but he's uh, 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.240 he's very fast. Who's this up here? Wan Soto obviously 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:07.400 hest walk percentage in the league medium speed, all right, 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.840 so sprint speed and K percentage reverse, which is obvious. 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.639 So the faster you are, the more you're gonna k, 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.200 which I that kind of grew, kind of grinds my gears. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.359 What nature of the beast? I guess. There's a couple 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.040 of scatterplots I noted when I was doing when I 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.560 was prepping for this, and then I forget about him. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.480 I screen shatted some Let's see what this one is 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.159 this is bad speed and whiffs? Oh yeah, this was 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.840 an egregious one. So the faster you swing, the more 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:41.480 you whiff, makes sense less control. And this was swing 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:47.160 length and fast swing all right, So let me find 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.399 that because there was a big outlier there swing length, 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:59.280 got a long swing? And would I say swing length 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.720 and fast fast swing percentage? Now I gotta figure out 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:08.800 what that is first before I keep going swing length 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:14.200 and fast swing percentage? So how many times do you 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.280 let it rip? Basically? Is that what fast swing percentage 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.560 would be? Like? How many times are you getting after 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:21.639 it giving it your a swing? So there was a 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:27.760 big outline. Who is it? Gian Carlo stan is really 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.000 funny because he's got a long swing eight point four 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.760 units of measurement that they use. I don't know what 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:39.720 it is. Seconds, seconds, I don't know. And he does 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.640 his fast swing ninety eight percent of the time. One 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:48.439 swing king should be his nickname now. JD. Martinez has 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:52.840 a really long swing. That's why he's breaking catcher's wrists. 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.600 Remember that that's crazy. Uh, But he doesn't use a 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:05.240 fast swing a lot all that's odd because he's like 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.959 a power homer guy. I thought he was different let 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:09.440 me see if there's any others I think are cool, 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:14.840 because I really wanted to look at zone swing an 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.600 out of zone swing. Because I'm gonna guess if you 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:20.840 I'm gonna just guess this based on everything I learned 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:25.240 from previous things. If you if your bat speed is slow, 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:30.800 that means you have more control. Luisa Raise uh wit 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:35.879 merrorfield is slow, and there's another one, Kwan, then I 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:41.040 would think that you swing out of the zone more 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.040 because you feel like you can get to it. But no, 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:49.280 very slightly so slower bat speed. Guys like a Rise 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.639 who's got a sixty three mile prior swing on average, 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.199 which is the slowest in the league. He swings out 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:57.600 of the zone thirty five percent of times, so that 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.959 is kind of higher. He's an outlier. Ernie Clement who 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:07.600 says Stan obviously he swings O'Neil Cruz, Javey Baiaz. That 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:09.760 adds up. He's got a fast swing and he's always 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:13.119 swinging out of the zone. Who are these guys that 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:18.119 never swing out of the zone, Kwan? That's funny, Luisa, 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.879 Riis and Kwan are different, but they both don't They 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:26.959 both have slow swings. Arise expands the zone way more. 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:30.800 Kwan does not expand the zone at all. Actually, what 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.000 was interesting was Stephen kwan bat speed is slow. But 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:37.840 when I did bat speed compared to slugging, Kwan was 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:42.439 a pretty big outlier on this graph. So Kwan swings 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.159 the bat at sixty five miles per hour, it's like 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:50.840 fourth slowest in the league. His other batters that swing 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:56.160 the bat that's slow. You have Luis Giorme who has 0:21:56.200 --> 0:22:00.560 a slugging percentage of like three ten. You have Nicky 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.920 Lopez who has a slugging percentage that starts with a two, 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:09.400 and you have wit Merrifield who had a slugging percentage 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:13.320 that started with a two. Those three all had a 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:17.359 the bat speed of sixty four to sixty five miles 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:21.800 per hour. Stephen Kwan is the fourth member of that 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:27.480 bat speed and his slugging is like five twenty. So 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:30.280 that's a huge outlier that he's swinging that slow, but 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:34.080 he's able to generate slug and some of those guys 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:38.080 are fast too. Where they were Nicky Lopez is fast, right, 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:44.160 big outlier. This guy Hovey Bayez again pops up. He's 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:49.680 always an outlier. He swings relatively fast, no slugging at all. 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:52.840 A lot of these charts were like, hey, Hovey, maybe 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:58.280 change up your entire game. Go slower. This was tough. 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:00.399 Jose McFly was looking at this with me and he 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:02.880 was like, who's that guy And he pointed at the dot. 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:10.040 That's pretty slow swing speed and really bad slugging. And 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:11.719 I said, yeah, let's see who that is. And then 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:13.840 it was DJ le Mayhew and we were like, oh, 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:19.520 matches the eye test though, So that's stunk. All right. 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:23.080 I got three minutes left for my third thing, which 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:29.600 are all Star game fun facts one, two, three, Wow, Shelfy, 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.080 you is right next to me. 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