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<blockquote data-quote="leatherneckjacket" data-source="post: 945790" data-attributes="member: 3849"><p>I am glad you brought this up. Lack of roster diversity is pervasive in professional baseball, especially with my Yankees. </p><p></p><p>It looks like Tech is following a similar model where they identify recruits based on a limited set of metrics (velocity and spin rate for pitchers, exit velocity and launch angle for batters) without a thought of how the lineup or staff will fit together. By having diversity across your lineup, it is less likely that a pitcher will shut down your entire lineup. Similarly, if your pitchers have diversity of speeds, spin rates, pitches, arm angle, etc., it is more likely you can have greater success against any given lineup. I think it is an important to note that how metrics are used to shape pitchers pitch selection and placement has evolved since CDB was with the Yankees. Back then, they were still figuring about how to best use the data and they were not very successful (see Sonny Gray for one of their worst instances of screwing up a pitcher based on the merics.) My gut is that CDB has not evolved to use the data correctly to help pitchers maximize their performance, and is hurting our program immensely because he has not figured it out yet.</p><p></p><p>By the way, lack of diversity is also what led to the significant downturn in batting average against the shift as players could not adjust their swings to hit the open holes on the other side of the infield. The only reason why teams shifted so much is because so many players could not hit em where they ain't. I find the new MLB rules banning the shift stupid. Outside of the pitcher being on the rubber and catcher being in his box, you should be able to play the other seven fielders anywhere in the field. Heck, Satchel Paige used to tell all his fielders to play on one side of the field and could still induce outs. You want to beat the shift, then hit it in the hole, do not ban it. It more players did that, then shift would not as prevalent as it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="leatherneckjacket, post: 945790, member: 3849"] I am glad you brought this up. Lack of roster diversity is pervasive in professional baseball, especially with my Yankees. It looks like Tech is following a similar model where they identify recruits based on a limited set of metrics (velocity and spin rate for pitchers, exit velocity and launch angle for batters) without a thought of how the lineup or staff will fit together. By having diversity across your lineup, it is less likely that a pitcher will shut down your entire lineup. Similarly, if your pitchers have diversity of speeds, spin rates, pitches, arm angle, etc., it is more likely you can have greater success against any given lineup. I think it is an important to note that how metrics are used to shape pitchers pitch selection and placement has evolved since CDB was with the Yankees. Back then, they were still figuring about how to best use the data and they were not very successful (see Sonny Gray for one of their worst instances of screwing up a pitcher based on the merics.) My gut is that CDB has not evolved to use the data correctly to help pitchers maximize their performance, and is hurting our program immensely because he has not figured it out yet. By the way, lack of diversity is also what led to the significant downturn in batting average against the shift as players could not adjust their swings to hit the open holes on the other side of the infield. The only reason why teams shifted so much is because so many players could not hit em where they ain't. I find the new MLB rules banning the shift stupid. Outside of the pitcher being on the rubber and catcher being in his box, you should be able to play the other seven fielders anywhere in the field. Heck, Satchel Paige used to tell all his fielders to play on one side of the field and could still induce outs. You want to beat the shift, then hit it in the hole, do not ban it. It more players did that, then shift would not as prevalent as it is. [/QUOTE]
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