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<blockquote data-quote="JacketOff" data-source="post: 920477" data-attributes="member: 4572"><p>Here is Mike Trout’s spray chart for every ball he put in play this season. Yes, most of his home runs are to the pull side, but if you look at the outs there is a large concentration of fly ball outs in RF, and a large concentration of ground ball outs on the left side of the infield. Trout is a pure hitter who is not trying to pull every ball. I think his approach is to hit everything over the CF wall. Still, his mis-hits line up with traditional thinking. Which is: fly ball outs to the opposite field, ground ball outs to pull side.</p><p></p><p>This correlation is why when teams overshift and put 3 infielders on one side of the infield, often times they’ll shade their outfielders the opposite way. With the shift bans this won’t be as much of a factor, but when you understand the patterns of balls off the bat it’s a lot easier to create defensive positioning</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]13669[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>You can look up any major league hitter’s spray chart here, and most of them will tell the same story. </p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.fangraphs.com/players/mike-trout/10155/spray-charts?position=OF&type=fielding[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JacketOff, post: 920477, member: 4572"] Here is Mike Trout’s spray chart for every ball he put in play this season. Yes, most of his home runs are to the pull side, but if you look at the outs there is a large concentration of fly ball outs in RF, and a large concentration of ground ball outs on the left side of the infield. Trout is a pure hitter who is not trying to pull every ball. I think his approach is to hit everything over the CF wall. Still, his mis-hits line up with traditional thinking. Which is: fly ball outs to the opposite field, ground ball outs to pull side. This correlation is why when teams overshift and put 3 infielders on one side of the infield, often times they’ll shade their outfielders the opposite way. With the shift bans this won’t be as much of a factor, but when you understand the patterns of balls off the bat it’s a lot easier to create defensive positioning [ATTACH type="full" alt="7BD0EED2-B0F2-431A-921D-AC94BE10B1FE.png"]13669[/ATTACH] You can look up any major league hitter’s spray chart here, and most of them will tell the same story. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.fangraphs.com/players/mike-trout/10155/spray-charts?position=OF&type=fielding[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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