Comments on: Why has Todd Frazier been so bad? http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/06/01/why-has-todd-frazier-been-so-bad/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Russ http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2017/06/01/why-has-todd-frazier-been-so-bad/#comment-4737 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:00:57 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=6213#comment-4737 Dunn, LaRoche, and Frazier are all former National League players. They all can hit fastballs, but in the AL that pitch is thrown less frequently.

This is the #1 reason I was against the Frazier acquisition.

I looked at Fangraphs’ team pitching and sorted by FB% descending. Year in and year out 8 of the top 10 teams are NL teams. Throw out the Rockies as an outlier and it’s still lopsided.

Dunn, LaRoche, Frazier, Sandoval, Pujols, Headley, Tulowitzki… These are just the names off the top of my head that had a noticeable drop off after switching from NL to AL. I can’t even come up with a guy off the top of my head that had a drop off going the other way, usually they thrive going to the fastball league (Cespedes, Flowers, and if you want to go back far enough: Sosa).

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