Data question after reading Moneyball....

[Markus_ls]

In Moneyball there is mention of the A's tracking how often a player swung at a pitch that was out of the strike zone. And this is presumably from 2002. I've long wanted some systematic data on this very trait as it seems a highly useful predictor or BPI. Can you tell me....

Is this kind of data common for professionals like major league clubs and/or companies like HQ?

Any chance this kind of data will make its way to the masses (like HQ subscribers) in the near future?

[RAY@HQ]

I assume that's the hitter equivalent of the data that Neil Bonner was looking at in his "Mastering the Pitching Process" series. If by some chance you missed it (there was a long discussion thread), click the 'Research and Analysis' section, it's in the Library there.

[Markus_ls]

I assume that's the hitter equivalent of the data that Neil Bonner was looking at in his "Mastering the Pitching Process" series. If by some chance you missed it (there was a long discussion thread), click the 'Research and Analysis' section, it's in the Library there.

I did miss that....thanks for the tip.

[Michael@HQ]

I did miss that....thanks for the tip.

Mark, it was a long series of articles that Neal wrote. If you don't have time to catch up, skip the first 4 parts or which were reprinted from a couple years ago to go straight to part 5 and part 6, the new material.