The crew at SB Nation’s Beyond the Box Score is seemingly working on new things every day to wow the pants off of baseball fans across the world. Their latest addition is no exception.
Forget Stats To Judge A Pitcher: Now We Have Pretty Pictures
↵↵Still, the natural human tendency is to look for the one combination of all things known into a single description that tells us everything we need to know about a particular subject. For the NFL, we have QB Rating (ugh), for Physics, string theory, and for social networkers, the still unnamed “# of unwanted comments from ancillary friends per post.”
↵The same need exists for baseball fans. The conclusion I came to after some extended consideration (beer and videogames), is that perhaps the best way to describe some total package of talent is visually, rather than numerically.
↵Thus, the DiamondView was born.
↵↵The pitching DiamondView combines command, control, batted-ball and durability. Here’s how the 2009 American League Cy Young Zack Greinke breaks down:
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