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		<title>What Happened To Marco Estrada&#8217;s Changeup in 2017?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marco Estrada had a rough 2017 season. As a pending free agent who had just posted two well above-average season, another good turn would likely have led to a very healthy contract going forward. Instead, after a tremendous start, everything went sideways for the Jays’ hurler. He posted a 4.98 ERA, dealt with personal issues off [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marco Estrada had a rough 2017 season. As a pending free agent who had just posted two well above-average season, another good turn would likely have led to a very healthy contract going forward. Instead, after a tremendous start, everything went sideways for the Jays’ hurler. He posted a 4.98 ERA, dealt with personal issues off the field, and ended up signing a one year contract extension with the hope of hitting the market again next year. What went wrong? It was certainly a few things, but most importantly: his bread and butter pitch seemingly abandoned him:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Marco Estrada&#39;s wRC+ allowed against his changeup:</p>
<p>2013: 37<br />2014: 75<br />2015: 58<br />2016: 50<br />2017: 130</p>
<p>&mdash; Rob Silver (@RobSilver) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobSilver/status/937315292882993152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>That’s one heck of a disappearing act by one of the game’s best offspeed pitches.</p>
<p>Everything went backwards on the aggregate with the pitch last year. Estrada threw it more often (32 percent in 2017 vs 28.8 percent in 2016 and 27.8 in 2015), but it obviously got hit harder (see above) and his swing and miss rate on the pitch also fell off pretty heavily:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Brooksbaseball-Chart-37.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-14444" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Brooksbaseball-Chart-37-1024x683.png" alt="Brooksbaseball-Chart (37)" width="500" height="333" /></a></p>
<p>There was obviously something going on there. But as anybody who watched the Toronto season is probably aware, Estrada had a very up and down 2017. The same applies to his changeup:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Brooksbaseball-Chart-38.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-14445" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Brooksbaseball-Chart-38-1024x683.png" alt="Brooksbaseball-Chart (38)" width="500" height="333" /></a></p>
<p>As you can see, Estrada actually only really struggled with the pitch in June and August, with a bit of a blip in April that happened to be helped along by <a href="http://www.brooksbaseball.net/outcome.php?player=462136&amp;b_hand=-1&amp;time=month&amp;minmax=ci&amp;var=slg&amp;s_type=2&amp;startDate=04/01/2017&amp;endDate=12/03/2017&amp;gFilt=&amp;pFilt=FA|CH" target="_blank">an unusually stingy fastball</a>. So instead of looking at the season as a whole, we should be looking at those individual months to see what was going on with Estrada’s changeup.</p>
<p>There doesn’t seem to be an issue with the <a href="http://www.brooksbaseball.net/velo.php?player=462136&amp;b_hand=-1&amp;gFilt=&amp;pFilt=FA|CH&amp;time=month&amp;minmax=ci&amp;var=mph&amp;s_type=2&amp;startDate=04/01/2017&amp;endDate=12/03/2017" target="_blank">velocity gap between his changeup and his fastball</a>, so that’s not the problem. But when we start looking at the movement on the two pitches, the issue starts to become a bit clearer:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Brooksbaseball-Chart-33.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-14448" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Brooksbaseball-Chart-33-1024x683.png" alt="Brooksbaseball-Chart (33)" width="500" height="333" /></a></p>
<p>That sure looks an awful lot like that slugging percentage chart above, doesn’t it? It follows reasonably logically. By the time the ball is getting to the plate, there is a two inch variance in where the pitch was ending up (assuming a similar release point). That’s a big difference when we’re talking about a bat that has a 2.61” barrel.</p>
<p>For reference, take a look at the vertical movement (+ gravity) on the changeup over the last two years.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Brooksbaseball-Chart-39.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-14447" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Brooksbaseball-Chart-39-1024x683.png" alt="Brooksbaseball-Chart (39)" width="500" height="333" /></a></p>
<p>We can ignore the two October readings — as they were both based on a single outing — and see that the vertical movement on his changeup tracks pretty well with the whiff rates on the pitch from that first chart above. Most importantly, all the months with the least amount of “drop” on the changeup occurred in 2017.</p>
<p>But we’re still talking about the what. What we really need to get into is the why. WHY did Estrada’s changeup get worse? There was no tangible change in spin rate (a difference in average RPM of a mere 29 revolutions, from 2154 to 2125), but there definitely was one in release point.</p>
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<p>There’s a substantial difference in where Estrada was letting the ball go this year compared to last; the range there is a whole six inches of release horizontally. But as we said above, Estrada had some good months with the pitch in 2017. He was never getting the whiffs of 2016, but still solid. So let’s focus on 2017.</p>
<p>The two months where Estrada happened to be throwing most over the top completely lined up with the months where his changeup fought gravity at the highest rate. That’s not a coincidence, of course. By coming over the top like that Estrada is changing the spin direction of the baseball. The closer he gets to true backspin, the more the pitch will fight gravity. In the case of his disappearing changeup, that just happens to be a bad thing (though it helps him with his fastball).</p>
<p>When we look at the vertical release points we catch another issue.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Brooksbaseball-Chart-41.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-14450" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Brooksbaseball-Chart-41-1024x683.png" alt="Brooksbaseball-Chart (41)" width="500" height="333" /></a></p>
<p>Estrada began tilting a bit in June (and was aware of that, <a title="Marco Estrada on His June Struggles and Juiced Baseballs" href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/07/04/marco-estrada-on-his-june-struggles-and-juiced-baseballs/" target="_blank">as he told Gideon Turk</a>) which was throwing off his release point. However, in August he had almost an identical vertical release so the one he had in April but with a horizontal release of over four inches closer to the plate. If you’re wondering how that happens:</p>
<p>This is a changeup from April.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/estt2017-apr.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14451" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/estt2017-apr.png" alt="estt2017 apr" width="637" height="328" /></a></p>
<p>This is a changeup from August.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/estt2017.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14452" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/estt2017.png" alt="estt2017" width="641" height="329" /></a></p>
<p>Estrada is <em>really</em> tilting his body in that second photo. If you’re having trouble seeing it, compare the left handed batters boxes in those two photos. In the one from April, there’s a significant, visible gap between Estrada’s shoulder/neck and the line of the box. With no change in position on the rubber in the latter picture, he is almost completely obscuring the box&#8217;s outer edge.</p>
<p>These are cherry-picked offerings (we can find occasional examples of each in any start), but they’re also very representative of what the average release point data is trying to show. Estrada was pulling off the ball in August, resulting in lower vertical release (because he was bent over more), but also a release closer to his head. As such, he was still getting that “rise” on his changeup that he didn’t want, despite the lower release point.</p>
<p>In addition to the problems created by the unusual movement, the constantly shifting release points would have wreaked havoc on Estrada ability&#8217;s to command the pitch. Take a look at his <a href="https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_search?hfPT=CH%7C&amp;hfAB=&amp;hfBBT=&amp;hfPR=&amp;hfZ=&amp;stadium=&amp;hfBBL=&amp;hfNewZones=&amp;hfGT=R%7C&amp;hfC=&amp;hfSea=2016%7C&amp;hfSit=&amp;player_type=pitcher&amp;hfOuts=&amp;opponent=&amp;pitcher_throws=&amp;batter_stands=&amp;hfSA=&amp;game_date_gt=&amp;game_date_lt=&amp;player_lookup%5B%5D=462136&amp;team=&amp;position=&amp;hfRO=&amp;home_road=&amp;hfFlag=&amp;metric_1=&amp;hfInn=&amp;min_pitches=0&amp;min_results=0&amp;group_by=name&amp;sort_col=pitches&amp;player_event_sort=h_launch_speed&amp;sort_order=desc&amp;min_abs=0#results" target="_blank">Statcast</a> location plots from 2016 vs 2017:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/newplot-2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14446" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/newplot-2.png" alt="newplot (2)" width="771" height="372" /></a></p>
<p>Those two heat maps couldn&#8217;t be more different. In 2016, Estrada had a very small area where most of his changeups ended up, with the rest of them radiating down and out of the zone, showing a clear intent. In 2017, the most frequented location is spread over a much bigger area in the middle of the plate, then radiating out in all directions. That&#8217;s a visible example of a lack of command. When you&#8217;re talking about pitch that relies entirely on deception for its effectiveness, being able to throw it where you want is pretty important. Estrada couldn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>So inconsistent movement, inconsistent release, and inconsistent location. Yep, that would add up to a bad pitch.</p>
<p>The obvious follow up, then, is what does all this mean going forward?</p>
<p>Well, the good news is that he is aware of the potential issue in his delivery — which affected his fastball as well, as linked above. Secondly, the reason he was unable to make proper adjustments very easily could be related to the personal issues he was facing during much of the year. Mechanics are very much a mental aspect of pitching; if you’re having trouble getting into the right head space, they can go off pretty easily. For an extreme example, look no farther than what happened to Brad Lidge after Albert Pujols hit the ball 500 feet off him in a playoff game.</p>
<p>If Estrada is right mentally (and we have no reason to believe he isn’t) and able to continually focus on correcting these flaws (he seemed to make a minor adjustment in July, only to overdo things in August), then he should be closer to the pitcher we’ve seen the for most of the last three years. If not, we could see another up and down year from the 33 year old.</p>
<p>Thankfully, we also have something of a track record to point to after three years of Estrada in Toronto, so the betting here is that he will be just fine in 2018.</p>
<p><em>Lead Photo © Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports</em></p>
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		<title>The Season That Was: Exaggerated, Oversold, and Bound to Disappoint</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, when I was just entering high school, I took a business class. The teacher, let&#8217;s call him Mr. Stewart, was a quirky fellow &#8211; and quite honestly not that great of a teacher &#8211; but on the first day of class he told us something that he said we&#8217;d remember for the [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many years ago, when I was just entering high school, I took a business class. The teacher, let&#8217;s call him Mr. Stewart, was a quirky fellow &#8211; and quite honestly not that great of a teacher &#8211; but on the first day of class he told us something that he said we&#8217;d remember for the rest of our lives: the happiness formula. He wrote it on the board.</p>
<p>Results &#8211; Expectations = Level of Happiness</p>
<p>It seemed too simple to care about, silly even. He then shared with us a seemingly sillier example:</p>
<p>&#8220;If a friend asks to borrow $10 from you and you expect that  $10 back at some point, but never get it, you&#8217;ll surely be unhappy&#8221;</p>
<p>0 &#8211; 10 = -10 → very unhappy</p>
<p>&#8220;If a friend asks to borrow $10 from you and you oblige out of the goodness of your heart, not expecting that you&#8217;ll receive the $10 back at some point, you&#8217;ll surely be content&#8221;</p>
<p>0 &#8211; 0 = 0 → throughly content</p>
<p>His example seemed poor. Why would one be content having lost $10? When I have experienced that very situation, however, I&#8217;ve found the happiness formula to ring true.</p>
<p>Now consider the 2017 Toronto Blue Jays. The team was coming off a season in which they&#8217;d won 89 games — their seventh highest total —and yet again come one stop short of the World Series. Pretty exciting stuff. The team then proceeded to lose their second best player, make Kendrys Morales their marquee signing, and have their already old starting roster age another year. The result? Projected records that put the Blue Jays well below the same projections in the previous season and even further below the team&#8217;s actual 2016 record.</p>
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160404055301/http://www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/dc/" target="_blank">Projected 2016 Record</a>: 86-76<br />
<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2016-standings.shtml" target="_blank">Actual 2016 Record</a>: 89-73<br />
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170402051004/http://www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/dc/" target="_blank">Projected 2017 Record</a>: 81-81<br />
<a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2017-standings.shtml" target="_blank">Actual 2017 Record</a>: 76-86</p>
<p>But because the team had surprised each of the last two seasons, the general consensus was that there was still a good shot at the playoffs again in the 2017. Statistically speaking, the consensus wasn&#8217;t wrong; any team projected to have at least as many wins as losses is bound to have 30 percent plus playoff odds. Though, compared to previous seasons, fans were no longer betting on a great season from a great team, they had to bet on a lucky season from an ok team. When that works, it&#8217;s incredibly exciting, but when it doesn&#8217;t it&#8217;s bound to disappoint. In either case expectations need to be set well in order to get a happy conclusion.</p>
<p>Results &#8211; Expectations = Level of Happiness</p>
<p>The problem, however, is that expectations weren&#8217;t set well at all, and we at BP Toronto were as big a culprit as any. In our preseason bold predictions piece, only one person seriously predicted a record at or below .500, and that was Bennett Brauer at 81-81, but we were by no means alone. TSN <a href="http://www.tsn.ca/al-east-preview-pitching-will-carry-blue-jays-1.694961">predicted that the Blue Jays would win the AL East title</a> on the backs of another successful year of pitching. Every one of <a href="http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/mlb-roundtable-award-predictions-world-series-picks-2017/" target="_blank">Sportsnet&#8217;s baseball analysts forecasted that Toronto would be in the playoffs</a>, and a few had the team as the AL East division winners. NBC Sports predicted that the team would <a href="http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2017/03/19/2017-preview-toronto-blue-jays/" target="_blank">place second in the AL East</a>. Even <a href="https://nesn.com/2017/03/al-east-preview-which-team-has-best-chance-to-knock-off-red-sox-in-2017/" target="_blank">Boston-based NESN thought the Blue Jays would be pressing the Red Sox for the division title</a>, noting that, &#8220;Toronto easily is the second-most complete team in the AL East, and if the Red Sox slack off at all, the Jays likely will be poised to snatch the top spot.&#8221; We set the expectations quite high, but we had no logical reason to.</p>
<p>This was prevalent beyond the beginning of the season as well. Even as the team dwindled in the standings in April, May, and June, there was still widespread thought that a push for the playoffs could come, which I <a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/05/24/reframing-the-rest-of-the-blue-jays-season/" target="_blank">wrote about at the time</a>.</p>
<p>In reality, as we know, the team didn&#8217;t meet those expectations, but it was due to more than just bad luck, indicating that it was an issue with expectations, not with results. Yes, Aaron Sanchez&#8217;s nagging blisters didn&#8217;t help, and the Bringer of Rain&#8217;s injury induced drought was a disaster. But even if those two things hadn&#8217;t occurred it&#8217;s entirely possible that the Blue Jays would have found themselves without meaningful October baseball. In other words, there were a myriad of issues.</p>
<p>Per PECOTA&#8217;s projections, Toronto lost out on 1.5 WARP from Aaron Sanchez and 1.1 WARP from Josh Donaldson, which, even when generously extrapolated to additionally lost value from the two players&#8217; replacements, wouldn&#8217;t have been enough to make them competitive. The team wasn&#8217;t good enough. Of the Blue Jays&#8217; primary starters — the 25 players on the team&#8217;s roster on Opening Day plus Roberto Osuna — 14 underperformed their PECOTA projections while 12 over performed them.</p>
<p>If we accept that reality, then in order to take the team from &#8216;not good enough&#8217; to a playoff spot, one of two things would&#8217;ve had to have happened.</p>
<p><strong>1. Play Out All the Games and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I" target="_blank">Get Lucky</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Even though it&#8217;s most likely that a team plays <em>at</em> their true talent level, in any given season a team can play roughly ten games above or below their expected win total. The most recent and most prominent example of this is the 2016 Texas Rangers. They finished the 2016 season with 95 wins while only scoring eight more runs than they gave up over the full season. Had those runs been more evenly distributed, they would&#8217;ve missed the playoffs, but instead they won the division. However, as you can imagine, betting on this luck is an incredibly unsustainable strategy. When a team plays that high above their true talent level, it&#8217;s the outlier not the norm.</p>
<p><strong>2. Make Major Deadline Additions</strong></p>
<p>This was the 2015 Blue Jays&#8217; playoff strategy. In April, May, and June of 2015, Toronto&#8217;s playoff odds hovered between 10 and 20 percent, which is actually fairly similar to where the 2017 team was. At the 2015 deadline, however, the team added David Price, Troy Tulowitzki, and relief depth, thereby increasing the team&#8217;s true talent level. Given the prospect — and $ cost — of this path, this too is unsustainable.</p>
<p>Because you can&#8217;t make lucky happen and because the team is trying to create a sustainable contender, neither of those two things happened. As such, there were high expectations with no path to matching results.</p>
<p>Ok Results &#8211; High Expectations = A lot of unhappy Jays fans</p>
<p>Unless Toronto can convince Shoehei Otani to join MLB&#8217;s only Canadian team, the Blue Jays are likely to be in the same position again next year. These aren&#8217;t the dominant, AL East title winning Blue Jays of yesteryear and a year of aging without any top prospects ready to graduate to the major league level won&#8217;t help matters. <span style="font-size: 16px">I&#8217;m not going to tell you how you should carry out your fandom, but I will say that if we don&#8217;t all set our expectations more realistically in 2018, we&#8217;re in store for another disappointing season in </span><a style="font-size: 16px" href="https://bluejaysplus.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/unproductive-middle/" target="_blank">the unproductive middle</a><span style="font-size: 16px">. </span></p>
<p><em>Lead Photo © Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports</em></p>
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		<title>Artificial Turf Wars Ep. 78: Putting a (Re)Cap on the Season</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 78 Greg, Josh, and Nick break down the entire 2017 season by giving out individual awards. There are the obvious ones such as Team MVP, Best Hitter, of Best Pitcher, but the guys also nominate their own candidates for Best Quote, Clutch Performer, Best Dive, The Not-Pat-Venditte Award, Do Over of the Year, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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Episode 78</strong></p>
<p>Greg, Josh, and Nick break down the entire 2017 season by giving out individual awards. There are the obvious ones such as Team MVP, Best Hitter, of Best Pitcher, but the guys also nominate their own candidates for Best Quote, Clutch Performer, Best Dive, The Not-Pat-Venditte Award, Do Over of the Year, and more.</p>
<p><strong>Note: The show is now going biweekly unless something important breaks, but there will be occasional special bonus episodes with different content exclusively for <a href="https://www.patreon.com/turfpod" target="_blank">Patreon donors</a>. </p>
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<p>Intro music is Slow Burn (<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/" rel="cc:attributionURL">Kevin MacLeod</a>) under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="license">CC BY 3.0</a>.</p>
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