O's sprint speed number from Baseball Savant

[wildcard]

At almost 25% through he season.

Mateo   99

Henderson  81

McKenna 78

Mullins  75

Mountcastle 74

Vavra 72

Hays 64

Rutschman  39

O'Hearn  38

Frazier   33

Santander 32

Urias  31

McCann 25

Stowers  21

 

I think Stowers is SSS.  He is not that slow.

Edited May 13, 2023 by wildcard

[Mooreisbetter27]

Is this out of 100 or some other measure? 

[wildcard]

1 minute ago, Mooreisbetter27 said:

Is this out of 100 or some other measure? 

Out of 100

[AnythingO's]

1 minute ago, Mooreisbetter27 said:

Is this out of 100 or some other measure? 

yes, those are percentiles numbers

[Mooreisbetter27]

Thank you gents. I thought so but wanted to confirm. 

[baltfan]

I wish Gunnar were better at stealing bases given how often he walks and where he hits in the order. 

[Mooreisbetter27]

Actually surprised ADLEY is so low. I know he’s a catcher but he can chug when he gets going (and I don’t mean the homer hose)

[jabba72]

Frazier at 33 is pretty shocking. Mateo at 99 is amazing. Dude is fast. I thought Mullins was faster too.

[AnythingO's]

IS there someplace to see sprint #s in the minors (Cowser, Kjerstead) and maybe Stowers?

[Just Regular]

@AnythingO'sfound the definition for what Fangraphs gives for its Speed Score - its an indicator but not as granular.     Fangraphs does let Team Stats aggregate easily, and it thinks BAL is 4th best MLB-wide.    The Pirates are up in 2nd.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=1&season=2023&month=0&season1=2023&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2023-01-01&enddate=2023-12-31&sort=11,d

Speed score (Spd) is a statistic developed by Bill James that rates a player on their speed and baserunning ability. Different locations include slightly different components, but the FanGraphs version consists of, “…Stolen Base Percentage, Frequency of Stolen Base Attempts, Percentage of Triples, and Runs Scored Percentage.”

 

[Frobby]

4 hours ago, jabba72 said:

Frazier at 33 is pretty shocking. Mateo at 99 is amazing. Dude is fast. I thought Mullins was faster too.

Mullins has slowed a little bit every year.  He was 95th percentile when he came up to the majors. 

[AnythingO's]

3 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

@AnythingO'sfound the definition for what Fangraphs gives for its Speed Score - its an indicator but not as granular.     Fangraphs does let Team Stats aggregate easily, and it thinks BAL is 4th best MLB-wide.    The Pirates are up in 2nd.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=1&season=2023&month=0&season1=2023&ind=0&team=0,ts&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2023-01-01&enddate=2023-12-31&sort=11,d

Speed score (Spd) is a statistic developed by Bill James that rates a player on their speed and baserunning ability. Different locations include slightly different components, but the FanGraphs version consists of, “…Stolen Base Percentage, Frequency of Stolen Base Attempts, Percentage of Triples, and Runs Scored Percentage.”

So, for reference, Westburg and Cowser are 26th and 28th out of 133 players with scores of 7.0 and 6.8 where 7 is excellent and 6 is great and 5.5 is very good per Fangraphs. Kjerstad is 26th out of 80 players rated 6.2, while Prieto and Mayo are 51st and 54th with ratings of 4.3 and 3.8. While this measure is more about baserunning than pure speed, it supports the eye test that Kjerstad moves pretty well. As for Stowers he rates a 3.3  while Ortiz is 6.0, Norby at 4.1 and Vavra at 4.4. Maybe that explains Hyde's decisions to give Vavra RF ABs over Stowers .

[eddie83]

Frazier is a very good base runner.