Minor League Splits Blog

Couple of things: now, on every splits table (player, team, or league), if you mouse over a walk or strikeout total, you will see the relevant K/PA or BB/PA rate.  That’s for both pitchers and hitters.

Also, you may have noticed that when players have no at-bats, their rate stats (AVG, OBP, etc.) are given as “0″ instead of “.000.”  That’s by design, but due to a mistake in my code, hitters with no at-bats but at least one plate appearance weren’t showing OBPs or OPSs.  That’s fixed.  Now all OBPs and OPSs should be correct–or at least consistent with the rest of my data.

Major improvement to batted ball tables: now, mousing over any entry in a table gives you a percent for that entry.  In other words, if you’re looking at Sean Smith’s batted ball table, all you see at first is a bunch of raw numbers: 376 total batted balls, 85 to them right, 34 of them groundball hits, etc.  To see the percentage equivalents, mouse over any number.  In the “Overall” column, you might see GB%, outs per fly ball, hits per line drive, etc.  In every other column, the percent given is the percent of balls (in that column) to reach that destination.

It’s simple, it’s fun, and it saves you an excel query!

I had just about forgotten about this until I found a note on a weeks-old list of possible improvements to the site.  All along, my databases have contained batted ball tables (like Corey Hart’s, here) for each team and league.  I just hadn’t made them available on the site.  It’s great data to have available–if you’re going to analyze the nuances of a player’s batted ball results, it’s much better to have aggregate league numbers to compare them to.

Now, you can see aggregate batted ball data for both pitchers and hitters for each team and league in Minor League Baseball.  For example, see team pitching data for the Altoona Curve, or total batted ball data for the Midwest League.  For some reason, total batting and pitching data doesn’t match up exactly–in the case of the MWL, it’s off by about two hundreths of a percent.  This happened when I first aggregated league splits, as well; I’ll eventually figure out what’s amiss and fix it up.

Also, I just fixed the script to generate a player’s cumulative stats (see Ryan Braun’s, here).  The way my data is stored, if a player has accumulated any stats for a certain split (say, batting as a leftfielder, or pitching in the third inning), there’s still a blank line.  All along, the regular team-specific splits table scripts edited out those blank lines before showing them to you.  I forgot to include that in the cumulative stat script.  It’s now fixed, so you’ll have far fewer useless zeroes to distract you next time you look at a player’s overall numbers.

Enjoy!

A couple of days ago I introduced a new feature to player splits tables: if you mouse over GB, LD, FB, or Popup totals in any row, you see GB%, LD%, HR/F, and IF/F, respectively.  Also, I pointed out something that had been there all along: for all rate stats, mouse over the stat and see the league average.

Today’s incremental improvement: the league averages are now available in team splits tables, anad the batted ball percentages are available in both team and league splits tables.  Now it’s as easy as moving your mouse to find out what percent of fly balls turn into HRs in the Texas League, or to compare Brevard County Manatees pitchers’ K rates to the FSL average.

And yes, I know how much you’ve always wanted to do that.