***UPDATE***
THE MOUND REPORT IS DOWN
Unfortunately, I found a critical error in the Mound Report. Will report when its fixed.

There is a new column on the report, Pull Air %. This is something that Baseball Savant added this season, and I have UNSUCCESSFULLY tried to reverse engineer their formula/process. So... I gave up. What is on this report is a slightly more rudimentary version.

From BaseballSavant:

"From 2022-24, while only 17.5% of batted balls that were “pulled airballs,” that subset was responsible for 66% of all home runs. Pulled airballs in that time produced a .547 average, 1.227 slugging percentage and .733 wOBA, making them an extremely valuable outcome. Airballs that were not pulled, by comparison, had a .319 average, .527 slugging percentage and .353 wOBA, considerably less valuable."

As you can see, pulled balls in the air are heavily correlated with HRs and offense in general. Keep in mind, my model is different from Savant's, but the spirit should be the same, and these results should not be far off.

In my model, the baseline so far this season is ~14%. I will be tinkering with and testing with this column in the near future (maybe Pulled Air Barrel %?) .  Just one more thing we can look at and try to organize the chaos of baseball.

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  - Mr. Barrel




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