Jeff Sullivan on the Kazmir trade

Posted by Jason Wojciechowski on July 23, 2015 at 4:58 PM

Continuing the link roundup, here's Jeff Sullivan at FanGraphs on the Kazmir trade. There's an interesting bit on Nottingham's spray charts showing that he may have legitimate power, not just low-minors pull power, which is encouraging. I don't know the data source of that spray data (in the sense that I don't know where MLB Farm gets its ball-in-play data, how accurate it is, etc.), but even if we're talking about humans putting down dots on a screen approximating where the ball landed, the roughness of that type of charting is okay -- after all, we're just looking at whether Nottingham appears to hit the ball to right field with some measure of authority, not his average fly-ball distance or anything so fine-grained as that.