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Reverse Splits Data Finds
Hey all! I posted earlier this week asking about how to find reverse splits data and thanks to you guys we were able to find it! I've been going through the data and wanted to share my findings so far!
The three highest qualified seasons for tOPS+ are
- 2010 Brennan Boesch with a 158 tOPS+
- 1979 Bake McBride with a 155
- and 2025 Cody Bellinger with a 150 tOPS+
Boesch had a .421 BAbip facing liftings while McBride had a .420. Bellinger actually had a more realistic .348 BAip while facing southpaws.
Here are the graphs for those who are interested
- The all time leader in these reverse split seasons is Adam Jones with 11!
All great hitters here no surprise except for Jones having so many
- So far I haven't found a strong correlation between players who have seasons like this this and what causes them to be able to mash same handed pitching compared to the other side of the platoon. After emerging the batted ball data and bat tracking data from FanGraphs, The highest correlation right now is Attack Angle for players since that bat tracking data is available, but it only has a r value of around 0.36. If you guys have ideas to explore to try and find any commonalities or other ways to prove it's just kinda luck based I'd love to hear it! Thank you all so much!
u/GonGon99_27 — 18 hours ago