[洋基] Gardner Is Swinging at Nothing

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Gardner Is Swinging at Nothing

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/gardner-is-swinging-at-nothing/

By Dave Allen - May 6, 2010

Last year I wrote an article about Luis Castillo’s extreme approach at the
plate. His no-power swing rarely missed, so he could take a large number of
pitches with under two strikes, because, if he got to two strikes, he had
little chance of whiffing on strike three. The upshot was that he extended
at-bats hoping to accumulate enough balls to get a walk or find a pitch he
really liked to hit. It is an intriguing approach for low-power guys who have
the contact skills and plate discipline to pull it off.

So far this year the new poster boy for such an approach is Brett Gardner. He
has always employed it to some extent but this year taken it to new levels
with his league-lowest 30% swing rate and 40% Z-swing rate. Gardner does not
have quite the contact skills of Castillo — though has more power — but so
far this year he has shown an amazing ability to make contact with pitches in
the zone. Here are all the pitches Gardner has seen so far this year, color
coded by pitch type. Pitches he took are in a light color and pitches he
whiffed are encircled.

At least according to pitchf/x he has whiffed on nothing unequivocally in the
zone (the plate discipline section on the player pages is based on BIS data).
He has whiffed on some breaking and off-speed stuff below the zone and on a
couple of fastballs above the zone, but not much. You can also see the huge
number of pitches he has taken in the strike zone.

Gardner is not going to keep up his .419 wOBA — buoyed by a .380 BABIP and
13 steals on 14 attempts — and probably will not have more walks than
strikeouts at the end of the year. But even before this year he was an
above-average offensive player and these first 94 PAs suggest he will be even
better this year.


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推 kevinloo    :nice
推 danny789    :結果後面的Comments變成Ellsbury vs Gardner XD
→ chancewen   :給我SB連發!!
推 Conjuror    :腿弟衝衝衝
→ arousalC    :sounds good!
推 ninini      :從這一篇可以明顯看出來一件事...........
→ wenhengju   :什麼事?
推 ninini      :那就是leddy的期中考結束了
推 seto        :leddy是大學老師不用考試阿....
推 ninini      :因為期中考結束要開始忙了 所以這篇沒有翻譯XDD
推 wenhengju   :XDD 想看翻譯XDD
推 FORECORD    :不是都給研所生改嗎= =
推 Ally1213    :盡責的老師都自己改喔 ^.<
推 seto        :不盡責的老師都給博士生改的喔 ^.<
推 ROCAF       :NYY版還真是臥虎藏龍
推 FORECORD    :有些教授很忙給博研的改還OK啦