Did I miss Billy Hamilton’s Play of the Year, In the Rain, Against Minnesota, Full Spread, Diving TOWARDs the Wall Catch!?!?!?! If so, this traves-ham-Mockery of the first order!!!!! I’ll watch again tho’!!!!
The most impressive catches from a statistical point of view, aren't always web gems. Sometimes a player will get a late jump, or take a bad route, but will make an incredibly athletic play to save the catch. Other times there will be a screaming line drive that they read perfectly, and end up with a "5 star" catch that didn't even involve a dive. For the record, Statscast considers anything with a less than 25% chance of being caught a 5 star catch
A 5 star catch is any catch that statscast says is 25% or less, likely to be caught. 5 star catches aren't always the best looking catches. They are often linedrive bullets that the defender reacts to VERY quickly. Meanwhile a player can take a bad route to a ball, or get a late break, but make an amazing dive to catch the ball.
@@CanadaMMA Have you watched that catch? He literally runs at full sprint in a straight line and lays out for it. I take your point, but Springer's catch was incredible.
These are all great catches. It's weird though, I remember Kevin Pillar doing this on a nightly basis from 2015 to 2018, yet ironically, his catches (especially in the last 2 years of that span) were not deemed "5 stars"... In the first 2 years of that span, he had more 5 star catches than the next 2 runner ups combined lol... still no GG, again, very weird... Repeating the "spiderman catch" in center field to rob Nic Castellanos of a HR at Rogers Centre (during the Canada day series no less) was not deemed worthy of a 5 star catch... 🤔
If you combine catch difficulty with the importance of the game situation, I think the catch of the year's gotta be that Mookie catch to end the game, right?
Of course they did. But this is a fan made vid. This fan just happens to not look at the cards with their 5 gold gloves. Two of them being outfielders. Meh, vid is just incomplete.
What about Urshela’s grab? He’s a third baseman playing in the shortstop’s territory on a shift, and he ran to make the catch just a few feet away from the visiting dugout. He went flying into the pit of the dugout and got banged up pretty bad. And he still stayed in the game. That’s the catch of the year, if you ask me.
Who else read the title as: "5 All-Star grabs according to Statcast" and thought it was going be shorter, then after seeing 4 catches through 2 minutes you knew you were wrong.
This video is, in fact, not all 5 star catches. Michael A. Taylor made one with a 5% catch probability that was not in video. And I’m sure there’s more for other players. Be better mlb
you realize these are the statistical hardest catches to make right? half the time a player makes a diving catch its because he made a bad jump or had bad routing, making an easier play harder. these are the statistical hardest plays that were made all year, deal with it
in terms of circumstance and everything maybe, but these catches are purely based on the probability for them to be made. from a statistical standpoint these are the most difficult and therefore most impressive catches from the outfielders this season
He didn't "tag up" at first; on flyballs that are caught, you have to touch the base you're running from before advancing or else you can be thrown out before you return the base. In that case, he assumed Lux wouldn't catch the ball and was running all the way, but since it was caught the Dodgers just had to throw it to first.
Where’s the cardinal catches like the one where O’Neil robbed the Dodgers of a base hit and all of baders amazing catches and when nootbar robbed a home run from Pete Alonzo?
I'm not hating at all but the catch probability on most the these catches feels way too high. Like the catch for example 2:18 should not be a 25% catch probability that was an amazing play.
I said the same thing! Most of these should be like 30 to 40% and maybe 1 or 2 between 25 and 30%. Even that Kiermaier one, the guy just ran down a ball with a greater hang time. I mean, Joc Pederson could have gotten that no problem. As a Jays fan, I remember Kevin Pillar doing this nightly, but his catches were never worthy of 5 stars (or even 4 for that matter)... This is why I have "trust issues" with sabermetrics BS... lol
You know baseball players get a rap that they aren't great athletes, I think this video proves that a COMPLETE FALSEHOOD ! A true fallacy. Thank you for this compilation, it's one of the most fun videos I've seen recently. Happy Thanksgiving to one & all, from a Marlins fan here in Miami !
because statistically their catches didnt have a lower than 25% chance of being caught, these werent chosen catches these are literally the statistical hardest plays to make
Because that's how Statcast defines a 5-Star play-- 25% probabilty or lower. Unless you're trying to somehow imply that all of the catches were only 25%. In which case, watch again as well more than half of the video is catches harder than that. The more difficult than 25% start at 4:26. 15% at 5:17. 10% at 7:21. 5% at 10:32
clearly he didnt lol. “hurr durr diving catch look cool” doesnt mean its the hardest play. if he has a good jump or a good route he sometimes wouldnt even have to dive. so NO they are factually not better plays
Kevin Pillar x 5 and you can say you made a video about catches. He doesn't act up after his catches, either. It's refreshing. Some of these guys catch a ball and act like they climbed Mt. Everest.
I know right?! Pillar made these almost every game, but somehow they weren't worthy of being elite catches. I stopped believing statcast early on, but the nail in the coffin was when he robbed Castellanos at Rogers Centre (on Canada Day) by doing a Spiderman catch (like in 2015) on the CENTERFIELD wall!!! At the end of the season, it was confirmed that this catch wasn't even a 5 star or even 4 star catch, yet he is the only one to have scaled the wall twice at Rogers Centre (Rajai Davis did it once before) at least before the turn of the millennium... Pillar was definitely the GG winner for 2015 and 2016 ( and yes, I'm still pissed about that lol)
