Aiming High

Two questions: Who swings at the high stuff (without regard to px, just pz and hitter's average strike zone) and misses it? Who takes it deep?

Forty hitters fit the bill for the first question. Of those, four have hit homers Up and OOZ. I was able to find 50 hitters who have homered on pitch Up and OOZ. One is Matt Murton.

Here are the 40 you want to go up out of the zone on, followed by the hitters who have more than one homer Up and OOZ, who you might want to avoid. Ya know, for any Major League pitchers checkin' out my blog.

Pitches Up (including Away/In and Up)
Swing%> 30; Whiff%> 35 (about 1/2 a SD above mean) (sortable table)

	Swing	Whiff	Homers
Bay, Jason	30.5%	50.0%
Betancourt, Yuniesky	43.3%	35.6%
Biggio, Craig	38.9%	57.1%
Braun, Ryan	38.3%	39.1%
Cabrera, Asdrubal	34.1%	40.0%
Church, Ryan	32.0%	50.0%
Clayton, Royce	37.0%	45.0%
Crawford, Carl	32.9%	50.0%
Crosby, Bobby	32.7%	38.9%
Delgado, Carlos	31.4%	63.6%
Dobbs, Greg	33.3%	44.4%
Francoeur, Jeff	32.4%	41.7%	1
Giles, Marcus	33.8%	50.0%
Gomes, Jonny	32.1%	41.2%
Gonzalez, Alex	43.2%	36.8%
Hall, Bill	38.2%	50.0%
Hunter, Torii	30.8%	41.7%	1
Lind, Adam	40.3%	37.9%
Mackowiak, Rob	30.4%	64.3%
Milledge, Lastings	45.8%	45.5%
Monroe, Craig	35.5%	36.4%
Morneau, Justin	53.3%	37.5%
Napoli, Mike	31.1%	42.1%	1
Pagan, Angel	40.0%	37.5%
Peralta, Jhonny	34.6%	48.1%
Quinlan, Robb	31.3%	50.0%
Rodriguez, Ivan	41.5%	44.4%
Ross, David	35.7%	40.0%
Soriano, Alfonso	31.3%	44.4%
Terrero, Luis	35.0%	57.1%
Thames, Marcus	33.3%	46.2%
Thorman, Scott	37.9%	40.0%	1
Uribe, Juan	38.3%	49.2%

Home Runs when pz > hitter's average pz sz_top

Kemp, Matt	3
Rios, Alex	2
Hamilton, Josh	2
Navarro, Dioner	2
Izturis, Maicer	2
Wells, Vernon	2
Beltre, Adrian	2