Comments on: The Red Sox’s Great Ground Ball Debacle of 2015 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/10/22/the-red-soxs-great-ground-ball-debacle-of-2015/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Matt Collins http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/10/22/the-red-soxs-great-ground-ball-debacle-of-2015/#comment-3647 Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:31:56 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=2706#comment-3647 According to Fangraphs, his 1st half GB% was 44.4%, 2nd half was 47.6%. He did get up over 50% in September, though.

]]> By: Walt in Maryland http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/10/22/the-red-soxs-great-ground-ball-debacle-of-2015/#comment-3641 Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:04:10 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=2706#comment-3641 I would love to look at Porcello’s ground-ball rate from start to start. In the first half, his GB rate was just over 40%, as I recall. After his DL stint, he consciously tried to return to his old ways, and appeared to do so successfully.

As an aside, if the Sox were so committed to GB pitchers, signing Sandoval to play 3B was even less wise.

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