Here’s a Thought: How to Pitch to Each Hitter on the Oakland A’s

Before I spent the bulk of the last week on my Top 100 MLB Prospects list, I had been doing a number of studies to analyze how certain hitters were being pitched to and how they should be pitched to.

I thought I'd take a look at the A's batters (those who have enough plate appearances for their pitch numbers to mean anything, anyway) and see how they should be pitched, based on Pitch Type Linear Weights data.

After summarizing the approach a pitcher should take, I'll look and see what approach pitchers are actually taking to pitch to each individual batter.

Let's take a look.

Kurt Suzuki struggles with fastballs, as he's .9 runs below aver...

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