David Cone is Just Like You and Me
And by that I mean a baseball-obsessed supernerd. In an interview with New York Magazine, Cone says:
“I love Fangraphs and the mountains of data you can get there, especially with hitters’ tendencies and what percentage of pitches they chase outside the strike zone. Across the board, when balls are put in play — you know exactly which guys are groundball hitters, certain tendencies. Some of the defensive metrics are pretty interesting, too, although it’s probably a little bit controversial still…There’s not a day that goes by that I’m not on Fangraphs or Baseball-Reference.com…”
and in regards to PITCHfx:
“It would have also been nice to know exactly what I was giving hits up on over a period of time — the efficiency of certain pitches. What the rate was on my slider, my fastball, my splitter? Against right-handers, against left-handers. I would have really gotten into that data.”
Of course, Cone gets paid to look into these things, but that hasn’t stopped plenty of former athletes-turned color commentators from shunning the information. It’s always nice to see former players embrace advanced statistics and not stick to a constant stream of Dibble-isms.
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I love Coney for so many reasons and this is one of them
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