Brock HammitJan 128 minHitter Reports- Built for CoachesI made this report in R Markdown, but decided to break it down piece by piece to provide some general notes and commentary about the tabl...
Brock HammitNov 9, 20202 minBlog-Individualized Movement & Mobility Programming OnBaseU The OnBaseU hitting screen is made up of twelve different movement quality tests. After screening an athlete, coaches then have a...
Brock HammitOct 14, 20202 minImprove Your Environmental Design for Less Than $10One of the easiest and most impactful additions a coach can do to the cage is to mark the foul lines.
Brock HammitSep 11, 20201 minLaunch Angle Standard Deviation as a Performance IndicatorHere's a quick project I took on this afternoon. I wanted to look at the correlation between the standard deviation of a hitter's Launch ...
Brock HammitSep 7, 20201 minBlast Metric CorrelationsHere’s an example of a correlation analysis I ran of all of Blast motions sensors metrics using Brady Volmering's readings. It's a small...
Brock HammitSep 7, 20202 minPlayer Development Implications of Hitter StreakinessYesterday I got into an interesting discussion after Bobby Tewksbury proposed the topic of measuring a hitter's "streakiness". Daniel Tuc...
Brock HammitSep 10, 20190 minAnalyzing Blast Motion Metrics-Excel TutorialA quick tutorial to help coaches visualize Blast Motion performance trends using Excel.
Brock HammitAug 28, 20192 minOptimizing A Hitter's Training EconomyLast night I mentioned that players need to spend their training economy wisely, and one of my big principles for hitters over the last y...
Brock HammitMay 3, 20194 minPlate Discipline Clustering- Part 3In part 2 of this series I analyzed the first three clusters of hitters based on 5 different plate discipline metrics; O.Swing, Z.Swing,...
Brock HammitMay 1, 20193 minPlate Discipline Clustering- Part 2Without further ado, let's get to the fun part of analyzing the data clusters. In this post I will analyze the first three clusters. But ...
Brock HammitApr 30, 20192 minPlate Discipline Clustering- Part 1I recently decided to run a cluster analysis of plate discipline metrics(from FanGraphs) for all qualified batters in 2018. The idea behi...
Brock HammitApr 24, 20192 minSplit Grip- Blast Data*Disclaimer- This data set is very small and only from one player. The findings right now are only speculative until a larger sample can ...
Brock HammitApr 23, 20191 minBlast- Player SplitsBeen doing a lot of box plots lately and for good reason. I think them a lot and think they are simple but allow for a very quick way to ...
Brock HammitApr 20, 20191 minEarly Connection vs. Vertical Bat AngleWe are still working with data captured from our Blast motion sensors. Today I plotted two metrics, Early Connection and Vertical Bat Ang...
Brock HammitApr 19, 20191 minBlast Data and R- Attack Angle by Bat TypeUsing R can be a great way to quickly see how different bats or bat modifications are effecting a certain aspects of a players swing. Of...
Brock HammitApr 17, 20191 minTrout Launch Angle Box PlotA couple weeks ago I did a histogram of the distribution of Mike Trout's launch angles by pitch type in bins of 5 degrees. However, I thi...
Brock HammitApr 16, 20191 minTrout- Spin Rate by Pitch TypeBelow is a visual of spin rate ranges by pitch types thrown to Mike Trout in 2018. While this particular plot is very vague and not very ...
Brock HammitApr 14, 20191 minK% vs ISO and wRC+A little double plot action for this post. We do see a correlation between K rate and Isolated Power. Essentially, the more of a "slugge...
Brock HammitApr 13, 20191 minWRC+ vs Pull %Was expecting a higher correlation between pull % and WRC+. As you can see from the graphic there is very little. Everything must be cont...
