tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389427040394111033.post4807932482507672611..comments2024-03-19T01:14:17.908-07:00Comments on When the Giants Come to Town...: Scouting the 2017 Draft: Giants Take Two High School HittersDrBGiantsfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05574563470247927739noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389427040394111033.post-63429564719466398822017-06-13T07:50:24.980-07:002017-06-13T07:50:24.980-07:00Like most isolated statistics, they only tell part...Like most isolated statistics, they only tell part of the story. Time to impact might have some importance but what kind of impact is made is probably just as important- is the ball barreled, what is the launch angle (which seems to be the stat everyone is looking at these days), what is the exit velocity? I would imagine someone could even look at bat weight and design used by a batter and factor that in to the overall picture- it stands to reason that time to impact with a heavy bat would result in a better result than someone swinging the proverbial "wet noodle". But leaving the research lab and returning to the field of play, I am pretty happy with the Day 1 picks- especially since Ramos had been linked to the Hated Ones for quite some time. If that had happened, they probably would have developed him into their next 5 tool superstar... good thing we got him first!baseballjunkienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389427040394111033.post-3018789630623886262017-06-13T06:28:15.670-07:002017-06-13T06:28:15.670-07:00I'd rather look for how fast the hands/wrists ...I'd rather look for how fast the hands/wrists are going because it is correlational to bat speed. Ramos is at 37.8 mph which is better than 97.4% of all the hitters measured. Gonzalez is on the lower side at around 31.4 mph which is better than 73% of hitters but managed to put up a better exit velo than Ramos (92 mph vs 89 mph) but the videos I have seen Ramos hit the baseball hard, the ball looks way faster than 89 mph.Wrenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17425150358883755563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389427040394111033.post-68534065278752034582017-06-13T05:30:25.852-07:002017-06-13T05:30:25.852-07:00Thanks for that research. I am fascinated by the ...Thanks for that research. I am fascinated by the metric and whether it provides any objective way to measure the hit tool which has always been the most difficult to scout.DrBGiantsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699322384438591979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389427040394111033.post-16421625869077940052017-06-13T04:42:29.501-07:002017-06-13T04:42:29.501-07:00I read up on the Time-to-Impact stat. If your bat...I read up on the Time-to-Impact stat. If your bat is restless during the top of your swing, the Zepp device can produce false and inconsistent readings as it counts all motion as forward motion. That also messes up it's measurements for swing angle for some reason.<br /><br />In short, a long time-to-contact may or may not be true. But a short time-to-contact is not going to be false. So the time-to-impact number they have is dependant on whether Ramos' pre-swing barrell activity (which he does have some) is generating a false-positive or not. So maybe it's true, maybe it's false. I can't tell. I can only see the possibilities. <br /><br />Anyway, it was a surprise to see Ramos and Gonzalez go to the Giants. For various reasons I figured pitching.MosesZDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12702323080585738748noreply@blogger.com