WAIBI SABERMETRICS SYSTEM AND YULIESKI GOURRIEL’S DRAMA.
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| Yulieski's Home run |
This particular case has been followed by Waibi since its begining, and it contributed greatly to change the way to understand the statistics for our analysis.
The opposite case, which was exposed in our first article in Baseball & Science section, is José Abreu. In 2014, with cuban league data, we had predicted his great performance in the MLB, but in all honesty, we must confess that he positively exceeded our expectations. One of the reasons for this was the growth and technical specifies adaptation, made it by the player before starting in the big arena. His settings should not have been so many, and by improving small details, he “exploded” at best baseball in the world.
In the
case of Yulieski, we don’t know how to date its technical condition is, as there’s
not videos about his training. Technic was
our big remark as a cause of his opportunistic performance. Gourriel starts at Class A, with balance of 3 hits in 4 at
bats ( 0.750 AVG). But the battered Cuban baseball is still a little above
Class A. Currently could be considered at an intermediate point between AA and
AAA. . So these figures indicate absolutely nothing new about
whether the cubanito is suitable or not. There were a lot of early runs
in the match, which is indicative of low quality pitching.
We hope to see Yulieski finally shining in a
top-level tournament, even though our forecast is he will not. We believe he’ll be a standard player with maximum flash in
low and middle pressure games, unless his batting technique has improved enough
in recent months, to acchieve to be succesfull when face pitchers with 96 miles
average fastball, extensive repertoires, great control, and mainly, a very
effective throws mixing. We say this because we found in analyzed data that Yulieski
tended to yield very disproportionately against lower quality pitchers, unlike
Abreu, which behavior was relatively and proportionately stable.  |
| Abreu and Cepeda home runs |
