Sep 19, 2025
Forget MeatWaste, Who’s Crushing Shadowballs?
Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images As you surely know, Michael Baumann has been writing about MeatWaste for two weeks now. Specifically, he’s been writing about who is great at hitting pitches in the Meatball and Waste portions of the strike zone, according to Statcast’s Attack Zones diagram. Those are hitter’s pitches. The meatball zone right down the middle (zone five in the diagram below) is where…