Monday, December 22, 2014

BIP Locations: Garrett Jones

Earlier in the day we looked at Nathan Eovaldi's BIP Locations from Marlins Park to Yankee Stadium and I was left with a bitter and bad taste in my mouth. Let's clear that up, hopefully, by taking a look at what kind of raw power Jones could bring to Yankee Stadium and the Yankees. The Yankees have lacked that true power threat off the bench since the 2012 season when Raul Ibanez became a folk hero so I am excited to welcome Jones to the Yankees, unless these numbers are ugly... let's get to it.

Doubles
Home Runs
Fly Outs
Line Outs



As you can see I included line outs in the legend for the first time in a long time but that's because Jones is a bit of a line drive hitter. The way the wind blows out at Yankee Stadium, especially on a Saturday afternoon type setting, I could see at least one of these getting out into the Bleacher Creatures. Jones' doubles may turn into as many as six more home runs inside Yankee Stadium while a few of his outs, I count eight, have legitimate shots at getting out in the Bronx the way the ball travels here. And the home runs, look at the home runs, are not going to be cheap wall scrapers either in New York as most of these would be absolute bombs in Yankee Stadium. Jones looks to be a dead pull hitter and a left handed bat inside Yankee Stadium, if he doesn't get shifted on and refuse to beat it he may do some serious damage backing up everyone on the team. I was skeptical about bringing him in, and I still am, but these numbers at least make me feel better.

BIP Locations: Nathan Eovaldi

The New York Yankees acquired Nathan Eovaldi from the Miami Marlins along with Garrett Jones and Domingo German for Martin Prado and David Phelps. As always, and as we hinted to earlier on the blog, we are going to take a look at the BIP locations for Mr. Eovaldi and see what the season would have looked like had he pitched 2014 inside Yankee Stadium and not Marlins Park. I'd say enjoy, but it's scary.

Singles
Doubles
Triples
Home Runs
Fly Outs



For the first time ever I had to include singles on one of these. The lightest shade of blue are the singles, seen on the legend above, and it looks like one had a real legit shot at leaving Yankee Stadium. A single in Marlins Park is like a home run in Yankee Stadium, that's saying something. The darkest shade of blue are the home runs and none of them stay inside Yankee Stadium, as expected, but the next shade down are triples. It's probably hard to see on the photo but there are two dots in between the 408 sign and the 385 sign that are sandwiched in between two doubles. Both triples leave Yankee Stadium along with at least 10 of the doubles he surrendered. If Larry Rothschild and Gil Patterson don't fix Eovaldi's movement and control of his pitches we may be wishing we had Phil Hughes back in the Bronx in 2015.