Other Side of Hill

Finally, just in time for today's start, here's some more on Rich Hill.

The first question I pondered was about the pitch location at home plate being clear as the break/velocity information was - in terms of the 4-pitch grouping.

Well, it is. Click the image to see a bigger version - I've included an approximate strike-zone for reference sake.

From the catcher's perspective, you can see the fastballs (staying up and away a lot of the time), cutters down and in, curveballs and sliders falling along the line you'd expect such pitches to follow across the plate, with more curves lower and out of the zone.



More on Rich later when I get back to the Out of the Zone stuff.