The Giants signed Jeremy Affeldt for two years, $4 million per. That's pretty dang good. Since becoming a full time relief pitcher, Affeldt has excelled - despite calling hitters' parks home. The guys at Fangraphs picked him as a bargain this offseason, and they were right. You can check out his numbers there, and some PITCHf/x below.
I suppose it's unfair to say anyone, including the Cubs, whiffed on this guy. He went to San Francisco so quickly - the first signee of the season - Affeldt may have been targeting them all along.
He's gradually changed his pitch mix, over the end of 2007 through 2008
| cfx | # | mph | pfx_x | pfx_z | deg | rpm |
| CH | 104 | 88.1 | 8.8 | 6.6 | 127.7 | 1,426.3 |
| CU | 539 | 79.5 | -2.0 | -5.0 | 159.7 | 685.1 |
| FA | 1018 | 95.2 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 137.4 | 1,552.4 |
| 1661 | 89.7 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 144.0 | 1,263.1 |
| cfx | # | LHH | RHH | Swing | Whiff | B:CS | ISZ | Paint | Chase | Watch |
| CH | 104 | 3 | 101 | 0.4231 | 0.4773 | 3.6 | 0.2212 | 0.0288 | 0.3457 | 0.3043 |
| CU | 539 | 201 | 338 | 0.3488 | 0.5266 | 1.7 | 0.3544 | 0.0983 | 0.3190 | 0.5969 |
| FA | 1018 | 364 | 654 | 0.4666 | 0.1095 | 2.3 | 0.4460 | 0.1120 | 0.2695 | 0.2885 |
| 1661 | 568 | 1093 | 0.4256 | 0.2433 | 2.1 | 0.4022 | 0.1023 | 0.2931 | 0.3772 |
Got that? Lefty, $4 mil per season, 95 mph fastball and a nasty breaking ball. Plus a dirty change-up that's almost 90 mph.
1 comments:
Harry,
I'm a big fan of this site, I check it almost every other day and I was hoping you'd post something on Affedlt.
I've got a PFX question for you if you don't mind. I noodle around with PFX data and I was wondering if you had any tips on how to mass download all the XML data for a certain pitcher to run analysis on, like how you've done here with Affedlt. Does this require using a spider to parse the MLB Gameday site and then using data basing software? I love an easy way to grab all the data for a certain pitcher, and dump it into a spreadsheet.
Thanks for your time.
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