This chart looks at the plate discipline results of each player based on all pitches seen. Some observations:
*Ben Zobrist leads the league in ISO yet only 3% of the pitches he sees in the zone result in swinging strikes. For comparison Longo and Pena sit at 5.9 and 8.8% respectively.
*Longo seems to be having issues with pitch recognition. 13.8 % of the pitches he sees result in swings out of the zone while also taking 17.1% of pitches for called strikes.
*Carlos Pena whiffs on 16% of the pitches he sees. By comparison Longo whiffs on 12.5% and Zobrist on just 6.4%.
*Pena makes the "wrong choice" on the lowest percentage of pitches. 12.5% swings outside the zone and 12% swinging strikes accounts for 24.5% wrong decisions. Barlett is second at 26.6%. Carl Crawford is the worst at 31.3% (14.3%/17%).
*10.5% of the pitches Carl Crawford sees result in contact outside the zone.
Zorilla leads the team with nearly 45% of the pitches he sees resulting in called balls. For reference, Navi only takes 51.4% total pitches.
Below is the table of data:
Zo | Longo | Pena | BJ | CC | Barty | Burrell | Aybar | Gross | Kapler | Navi | |
O-Whiffs | 3.4% | 6.6% | 7.2% | 4.0% | 3.8% | 4.0% | 4.4% | 3.5% | 4.1% | 3.2% | 3.8% |
O-Contact | 6.3% | 7.2% | 5.3% | 4.1% | 10.5% | 7.2% | 6.3% | 7.4% | 7.2% | 8.8% | 9.8% |
Balls | 44.9% | 35.9% | 42.0% | 39.1% | 33.8% | 36.3% | 42.5% | 42.0% | 42.2% | 39.5% | 37.0% |
Called Strikes | 18.5% | 17.1% | 12.0% | 19.9% | 17.0% | 15.5% | 18.9% | 19.1% | 16.2% | 16.2% | 14.4% |
Z-Contact | 23.9% | 27.3% | 24.8% | 27.0% | 30.7% | 34.1% | 25.1% | 25.7% | 25.9% | 29.8% | 32.3% |
Z-Whiffs | 3.0% | 5.9% | 8.8% | 5.9% | 4.3% | 3.0% | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4.4% | 2.4% | 2.7% |