Fangraphs on the “true sweet spot”

[Frobby]

“It’s more important to hit the ball in the sweet spot when you hit it hard. Balls hit above 95 mph and between 20 and 35 degrees produce a wOBA 696 points higher than hard-hit balls that fall outside those angles. The difference is a mere 441 points for soft-hit balls in and out of the optimal launch angle range. This means that hitting the sweet spot is 1.58 times as important on hard-hit balls, and we’ll appropriately weight the number of hard-hit balls based on that.

“Without further ado, the true sweet spot leaderboard:

 

True Sweet Spot% Leaders

 

Mike Trout 30.1%

Cavan Biggio 29.2%

Austin Riley 28.1%

Chris Davis 27.8%

Joey Gallo 27.6%

Brandon Lowe 27.6%

Anthony Rendon 27.5%

Kyle Seager 27.4%

Ronald Guzmán 27.4%

Brandon Dixon 27.4%

Omar Narváez 27.4%

Jorge Polanco 27.4%

Eric Thames 27.4%

Brandon Belt 26.7%

Cody Bellinger 26.5%

“Now we’re talking. Trout and Biggio stand alone at the top, and the leaderboard is filled with interesting names. Chris Davis also makes an appearance to keep things mysterious. “
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/a-sweet-spot-by-any-other-definition/

Well, that is rather mysterious.    And it probably reflects Davis’ propensity to hit the ball into the shift.   When he hits the ball, he hits it hard, but right where all the fielders are standing waiting for it.

 

[bobmc]

16 hours ago, Frobby said:

“It’s more important to hit the ball in the sweet spot when you hit it hard. Balls hit above 95 mph and between 20 and 35 degrees produce a wOBA 696 points higher than hard-hit balls that fall outside those angles. The difference is a mere 441 points for soft-hit balls in and out of the optimal launch angle range. This means that hitting the sweet spot is 1.58 times as important on hard-hit balls, and we’ll appropriately weight the number of hard-hit balls based on that.

“Without further ado, the true sweet spot leaderboard:

 

True Sweet Spot% Leaders

 

Mike Trout 30.1%

Cavan Biggio 29.2%

Austin Riley 28.1%

Chris Davis 27.8%

Joey Gallo 27.6%

Brandon Lowe 27.6%

Anthony Rendon 27.5%

Kyle Seager 27.4%

Ronald Guzmán 27.4%

Brandon Dixon 27.4%

Omar Narváez 27.4%

Jorge Polanco 27.4%

Eric Thames 27.4%

Brandon Belt 26.7%

Cody Bellinger 26.5%

“Now we’re talking. Trout and Biggio stand alone at the top, and the leaderboard is filled with interesting names. Chris Davis also makes an appearance to keep things mysterious. “
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/a-sweet-spot-by-any-other-definition/

Well, that is rather mysterious.    And it probably reflects Davis’ propensity to hit the ball into the shift.   When he hits the ball, he hits it hard, but right where all the fielders are standing waiting for it.

 

I was looking for Renato and was disappointed!  Chris may have hit it on the "sweet spot" but he was so weak it wasn't "hard hit" as he mentioned above in the article.

[Moose Milligan]

Wasn't expecting to see Davis on there.  Maybe that's a reason for optimism.

[weams]