Fine, go ahead and mess-up the data (part 1)

Weren't you supposed to play first base anyway? Now you're moving further away?

Micah Owings is working on a new delivery that he unveiled in his first bullpen session of the spring Saturday. Rather than stand on the far left side of the rubber to start his motion, as he did last season, Owings is experimenting by standing on the far right.

This is an example of "noise" that isn't noise in PITCHf/x. This will be something we can actually look for in the data in his release points.

I've looked at Micah before - back in August before a start against the Cubs. I didn't look at release points, so now I will.

Micah's 2007 release points, y=50, home games.



Is it just me, or does that move "right" (from his perspective) across starts?


Yep, it sure does look that way. There's about 4 inches of drift.

Here's what it looks like, simply by adding .333 ft. to the x0 values for the first set of games.



What do we have? System adjustments, or pitcher adjustments? I'll take a look at Micah on the road, and his team mates at home, in part 2 and part 3.