Greetings from the middle of Table Rock Lake!
We’re off on a long-overdue family visit/vacation and while I would normally tap out of my Thursday column so I could spend the day on the water, there’s just too much interesting material to cover in week one of the baseball season. This article will be short, to the point, and will give us some trends to keep our eye on as this short season progresses.
Over the winter we took a deep dive into the evolving types of pitches that Cardinals batters faced in 2019. There we found some disturbing trends, particularly related to Matt Carpenter and Harrison Bader, the quantity of breaking and offspeed pitches these two hitters faced, and how they performed against them.