The charts below show on-base averages allowed by Pirates’ pitching on all balls in play from each zone. The first number in each zone is the OBAA and the numbers below that show the number of hits / the number of balls put in play from that zone. The top chart is Pittsburgh pitching only, the bottom chart shows all MLB pitching not including the Pirates. Where you see a red background, that indicates at least a 15% higher OBAA allowed over the MLB average and a green background indicates 15% or less OBAA than the MLB average. Pittsburgh’s hitting chart compared to MLB’s is here.
You’re free to comment on the charts but remember that we’re talking about small sample sizes, even for the MLB numbers. Still, it tends to show interesting trends like living in the middle of the zone has significantly helped us to convert balls in play to outs. Tell me you would have drawn that on your plan going into the season. And there’s much more to scrape from this here but I’ll let you have fun with them for now.
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Pictures tell a thousand words. Outstanding work Jake.