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MLB Trend of the Day: High Upside Pitchers at Coors Field
In yesterday’s Trend of the Day, Jay looked at batters at Coors, and specifically how the high altitude of Colorado affects fly-ball hitters. In today’s TOTD, we’re going back to Coors (since it dominates each slate) and we’re going to look at pitchers with high upside — measured by an elite K/9 rate — and see if we can perhaps find a contrarian way to deal with Coors in tournaments.
Step 1: Team Filters > Stadium > Select “Coors Field”
Step 2: Stat Filters > SO Percentile > Set “90 to 100”
Coors, at baseline, is already highly negative to all pitchers with a general Plus/Minus of -3.21. That’s not surprising, but I did wonder if perhaps high strikeout pitchers could yield some hidden value in tournaments. After all, you can’t hit home runs if you can’t touch the ball, right?
Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case — the 15 pitchers we’ve seen in the last couple of years with elite K/9 rates coming into Coors have performed even more negatively than just the general baseline Plus/Minus, as seen by their -5.23 mark in the picture above.
Have there been any instances that a pitcher with high upside has done well at Coors? Yes, actually three of the 15 measured above were 25-plus point DraftKings outings. Unfortunately, they all belong to Clayton Kershaw, who is not in this slate at Coors, and is also just an alien.
We have one match for this trend, which is why I was initially curious, but I think you know what to do with him tonight…
Sorry, Juan.
