A Grand Night in the Bronx: Baseball Analytics’ David Golebiewski has heat maps showing that all of the Yankees’ 3 grand slams last night came in known “hot zones” for each batter.

Breaking Down A.J. Burnett’s Zones: Jonathan Scippa of Baseball Analytics examines Burnett’s 2011 performance in each vertical 1/3 of the strike zone.

Andre Ethier’s Power Outage: Why is Andre Ethier’s slugging down 91 points from his 2008-2010 average? Baseball Analytics’ David Golebiewski investigates.

Kraig Kimbrel: David Golebiewski of Baseball Analytics spotlights Kimbrel’s unbelievable strikeout rate this season. What is allowing him to fan 15 batters per 9 innings?

Curtis Granderson, the right man against lefties: Baseball Analytics’ Bill Chuck examines the huge difference in the quality of Granderson’s hitting vs. LHPs this season.

Shot Target Visualization: Here are a couple of awesome visualizations from Arctic Ice Hockey’s Gabe Desjardins — shot frequency by target location, and shooting percentages in each area of the net.

Mauer’s Off-Speed Judgment Off: Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto analyzes why Joe Mauer has slipped from .275/.327/.349 on sliders/curves from 2008-2010 to .178/.186/.191 this year.

Stanton Killing Them Softly: Mike Stanton is flat-out crushing “soft” pitches (breaking balls, changeups) this season, writes Baseball Analytics’ David Golebiewski.

Delmon Young Takes Disappointing Act to Detroit: At Baseball Analytics, David Golebiewski explains why the former touted prospect Young has been a perpetual letdown in the bigs.

Grounding Youkilis: Why is Kevin Youkilis’ AVG down so much this season? As Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto writes, pitchers are keeping the ball down in the zone against Youk, sapping his BABIP by inducing a higher proportion of ground balls than they did from 2008-2010.

Dan Uggla’s Hit Streak Ends: At Baseball Analytics, Jonathan Scippa looks at a before-and-during contact heat map for the streak. Uggla was making an uncharacteristic amount of contact on pitches up and away during the streak.

Matsui Godzilla Again: At Baseball Analytics, David Pinto examines the changes in Hideki Matsui’s game that have enabled him to hit much better in the season’s second-half.

Jeter’s Needed Rest: As Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto writes, Derek Jeter’s heat maps and spray charts since coming off the DL show that he needed the rest.

Sabathia’s Boston Problem: Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto searches the pitch data for reasons why CC Sabathia has been so much worse vs. Boston than any other team this season.

A tale of two seasons for Dan Uggla: ESPN’s Mark Simon & Katie Sharp have more on Uggla’s sudden transformation from hitting .139 on July 4 to .408 ever since.

The Uggla Truth: Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto writes about the adjustments Dan Uggla made to snap out of his brutal slump — and into a 25-game hitting streak.

Ackley Owns the Strike Zone: Baseball Analytics’ David Golebiewski analyzes the superb plate discipline shown by Dustin Ackley since his MLB call-up a month and a half ago.

Ted Williams and perception: THT’s Josh Weinstock compares Ted Williams’ famous “heat map” of his own batting averages in each part of the zone to actual PITCHf/x data for lefties in 2011.

Freddie Freeman Finds His Power Stroke: Also at Baseball Analytics, David Golebiewski uses heat maps to chronicle the adjustments Freeman has made over the course of his rookie season.

Missing — Joel Pineiro’s Grounders, Control: Baseball Analytics’ David Golebiewski breaks down why Pineiro has been struggling this season.

Ervin Santana’s No-No : David Golebiewski of Baseball Analytics breaks down Santana’s stuff during yesterday’s no-hitter.

In case you haven’t noticed, David Ortiz is slumping: Baseball Analytics’ Bill Chuck looks at the pitches Ortiz has struggled the most with over the past 32 games.

Neftali Feliz Missing His Spots: Baseball Analytics’ David Golebiewski uses pitch-level data to explain Feliz’s struggles this season.

Dustin Pedroia under the ’scope: Bill Chuck of Baseball Analytics presents two sets of heat maps for Dustin Pedroia — before and during his current 34-game on-base streak.

Koji Uehara, Master of the Chase: As David Golebiewski of Baseball Analytics notes, Uehara has tricked many a major-league hitter into swinging at high fastballs outside the strike zone.

Nick Swisher’s Contact Rates: Jonathan Scippa of Baseball Analytics takes a look at Swisher’s ability to put the bat on the ball from each side of the plate.

Ubaldo at Home: As Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto points out, Ubaldo Jimenez is uncharacteristically struggling at home this season. Why? A big reason is his tendency to leave fastballs up in the zone.

Axford’s Highs and Lows: The secret of John Axford’s K-rate? Changing the hitter’s eye level, as David Pinto of Baseball Analytics writes.

Explaining the Declines of Jimenez, Rolen: Baseball Analytics’ David Golebiewski offers reasons for decreased 2011 production by Ubaldo Jimenez and Scott Rolen.

Pitchers Respecting ‘Cutch’s Power: As Andrew McCutchen’s rep as a hitter has grown this season, opposing pitchers are progressively staying away from the strike zone, writes Baseball Analytics’ David Golebiewski.

Chasing a Halladay Changeup: At Baseball Analytics, David Pinto tells us that batters chase changeups from Roy Halladay more than any other hurler. Then, using heat maps, he shows us why Doc’s change is so baffling.

Wily Mo Pena Powerful, Impatient as Ever: The book on Wily Mo — huge power and no patience — hasn’t really changed in his comeback season, David Golebiewski writes at Baseball Analytics.

Inside-Out Avila: Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto presents a heat map (and BABIP leaderboard) showing how well Alex Avila has hit pitches located on both outside corners this year.

Tim Lincecum vs. Anibal Sanchez: Bill Chuck of Baseball Analytics asks, which pitcher truly deserves to be an All-Star based on his play in 2011?

Bautista Dangerous On Outer Third, Too: Scary observation by David Golebiewski of Baseball Analytics — Jose Bautista has adjusted to become dangerous on pitches that catch the plate’s outer ⅓ as well.

Learning the Lefties: At Baseball Analytics, David Pinto writes about how Matt Wieters has been able to improve so much against left-handed pitchers this season.

Swisher Surging: Baseball Analytics’ Jonathan Scippa takes you inside Nick Swisher’s recent hot streak.

Matusz’s Zipless Fastball Hurting His Changeup: As Baseball Analytics’ David Golebiewski notes, Brian Matusz’s release velocity is way down this season, and it’s killing the separation he once had between his fastball and changeup.

Justin Upton’s Contact: Justin Upton’s dramatically increased production in 2011 is in part fueled by a lower rate of strikeouts. As David Pinto points out, he’s not swinging less or differently with 2 strikes, but he’s definitely improved his ability to make contact on the outer half of the plate when facing 2-strike counts.

Bastardo’s Closer-Worthy Stuff: Baseball Analytics’ David Golebiewski has “chase-rate” heat maps that show just how nasty Antonio Bastardo’s high fastball and slider away have been in terms of fooling hitters into swinging at pitches outside the strike zone.

Right is wrong for the Red Sox: Baseball Analytics’ Bill Chuck has heat maps that underscore why J.D. Drew (and his potential replacements) are killing the Sox’s production in RF.

Cliff Lee Quiets Red Sox: To get an idea of how impressive Cliff Lee was vs. Boston, check out the fastball and curveball heat maps from his outing, courtesy of David Golebiewski and Baseball Analytics.

Brett Myers’ Regression: Jonathan Scippa of Baseball Analytics shows us why Brett Myers is back to his old (bad) ways again in 2011, following a strong 2010 season.

Jered Weaver of Nightmares: Baseball Analytics’ Bill Chuck looks at a heat map for Weaver’s slugging allowed by location, and notes that he’s nearly unhittable when he keeps the ball in the lower ⅓ of the strike zone.

Curtis Granderson’s thank you to Kevin Long: From Bill Chuck & Baseball Analytics — see how Granderson’s hot zones have changed this season with a new hitting coach.

Lester and Long Balls: Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto uses heat maps to pinpoint why Lester is allowing HR at a greater rate this season.

Patient Pedroia: Dustin Pedroia and Vlad Guerrero both swing hard, but check out these Baseball Analytics heat maps to see the major differences between the two in what they’ll actually swing at in each count.

Peguero Hitting Backwards: Unlike most rookies, Carlos Peguero is raking offspeed stuff and struggling with MLB fastballs, according to Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto.

DIPS and Josh Beckett: Point and counterpoint on what Josh Beckett’s BABIP says about him going forward, from Fangraphs and Baseball Analytics.

Jose Bautista’s June Swoon: Bill Chuck of Baseball Analytics uses heat maps to examine the underlying reasons for Bautista’s June cool-down.

Verlander’s Septum: Heat maps of Justin Verlander’s pitch location tendencies reveal a rare sign of greatness, writes David Pinto at Baseball Analytics.

Adrian’s Approach: At Baseball Analytics, David Pinto illustrates how Adrian Gonzalez’s hitting approach changes with runners on.

Pence Learning Pitches: At Baseball Analytics, David Pinto compares Hunter Pence’s line-drive % vs changeups in 2011 to his previous track record.

A Quick Look at Matt Joyce: Jonathan Scippa of Baseball Analytics compares the pitch data on Joyce between 2010 and 2011.

Free Swinging Freddy Freeman: David Pinto of Baseball Analytics breaks down Freeman’s tendency to swing at pitches all over — and outside — the strike zone.

Price Even Better in 2011: Tommy Rancel of Fangraphs has a rundown of the advanced stats on David Price in 2011, which — contrary to traditional numbers — suggest he hasn’t declined at all.

Don’t Lowball Me!: From Baseball Analytics’ Jonathan Scippa, a look at the worst hitters when it comes to pitches thrown low.

Resting Lester: At Baseball Analytics, David Pinto has heat maps showing the difference between Jon Lester’s changeup in April (before the Red Sox gave him a mini-break) and the pitch since.

Jose Bautista: Patience and Power: At The Baseball Analysts, Dave Allen breaks down the pitch and batted-ball data on Bautista’s 2010-11 breakout.

The quality pitching of Jair Jurrjens: Baseball Analytics’ Bill Chuck presents platoon-split heat maps for the Braves’ star righty.

Hellickson Pops to the Top: Jeremy Hellickson is excelling at forcing pop-ups, writes David Pinto of Baseball Analytics.

Is The Danks Theory Catching On?: Tommy Rancel of Fangraphs takes another look at the Danks Theory — that is, the concept of using like-handed batters against a pitcher who prefers to throw his best pitch to opposite-handed hitters.

Magglio Ordonez to return to the Tigers soon: With Ordonez’s return nearing, Baseball Analytics’ Jonathan Scippa looks at how the injury impacted his slugging in 2011 vs. 2010.

J.D. Drew’s Power Drop: Jonathan Scippa of Baseball Analytics compares heat maps of Drew’s slugging zones in 2010 to those in 2011, and there’s a lot less red.

Swing change great for Curtis Granderson: Evan Kaplan & Sharon Katz of ESPN Stats & Info compare Granderson’s performances vs. lefties in 2011 and 2010.

Beckett in May: At Baseball Analytics, David Pinto has some great heat maps for Josh Beckett vs. lefty batters last month.

David Ortiz Versus Lefties: At Baseball Analytics, a comparison of 1st-half heat maps between David Ortiz’s 2010 and 2011.

As advertised, “Madson” Avenue: Baseball Analytics’ Bill Chuck puts Ryan Madson’s heat maps to the test.

Bartolo Colon’s Doughnut: Heat-map visualizations from Colon’s Monday shutout, courtesy of David Pinto & Baseball Analytics.

The Trouble With Soria: SI’s Joe Posnanski writes about the decline of Joakim Soria. See also: Jonathan Scippa’s take at Baseball Analytics.

Helping Prince Fielder: At Baseball Analytics, David Pinto has heat maps for Fielder’s in-play slugging, and how pitchers have changed their approach to him over time.

Pineda Data: A couple of notes on Michael Pineda — 1st, a look at his pinpoint accuracy at ESPN; then, check out Don’t Bring In The Lefty’s analysis of his PITCHf/x data.

Clutch DeJesus: Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto writes about how DeJesus’ approach changes in RBI situations.

Gaby Sanchez’s Hot Start: Sanchez’s start to 2011 has been much better than his start to 2010, writes Jonathan Scippa of Baseball Analytics.

The beauty of Bautista: At Baseball Analytics, Bill Chuck has Jose Bautista heat maps showing that his out zones and HR zones are basically the same areas.

Slow and Steady Josh Collmenter: David Pinto of Baseball Analytics has heat maps on Collmenter, who is succeeding despite below-average velocity and movement.

The struggles of Ubaldo Jimenez: Bill Chuck of Baseball Analytics looks at Ubaldo in 2011 vs. Ubaldo from the 1st half of 2010.

Wakefield Throwing Strikes: Neat heat maps of Tim Wakefield’s knuckleball location and movement, via Baseball Analytics.

Halladay Versus Beltre: David Pinto of Baseball Analytics with a detailed breakdown of Roy Halladay’s recent approach to Adrian Beltre.

Flashback: Jon Lester’s 2008 No-Hitter: Heat maps from Lester’s ’08 no-no, courtesy of Baseball Analytics.

Free Swinging Vlad Guerrero: David Pinto of Baseball Analytics with a graphical look at Guerrero’s free-swinging ways.

The Evolution of Jorge de la Rosa’s Change Up: Baseball Analytics’ heat maps illustrate the change in de la Rosa’s changeup over time.

Called Strikes out of the Strike Zone: Also at Baseball Analytics, Jonathan Scippa lists batters who have taken the most — and least — pitches outside the strike zone that were called strikes.

A Quick Look at Eric Hosmer: Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto with some Eric Hosmer heat maps.

What’s so great about Josh Johnson?: At ESPN New York, Mark Simon writes about the key to Johnson’s success — pinpoint breaking balls low & away to righties, low & inside to lefties.

Halladay and Left-Handed Batter Home Runs: From Baseball Analytics, David Pinto with a look at why left-handed hitters have 0 HR vs. Roy Halladay in 2011.

Wright not yet right vs. righties: Writing for ESPN New York, Mark Simon breaks down David Wright’s problems vs. right-handed pitching since last July.

Ortiz Pulling Less: Also from Baseball Analytics, David Pinto shows that David Ortiz’s low and inside power is down in 2011.

The Selective Dexter Fowler: Fowler has a lot of walks & strikeouts because of his selective approach, writes Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto.

Most Squeezed Pitchers: From Jonathan Scippa & Baseball Analytics, pitchers who have had the most strikes that were called balls.

Tigers and Twins and Short Fly Balls: Neither the Tigers nor Twins are hitting long fly balls, and Baseball Analytics’ David Pinto has the heat maps to prove it.

Justin Verlander’s No Hitter: From Baseball Analytics, a heat map (and the underlying data) of Verlander’s no-hitter.

Is Ichiro Really a Free Swinger?: Ichiro is a “selective free swinger,” writes David Pinto at Baseball Analytics.

Heat Map for Liriano’s No Hitter: Exactly what it sounds like, from Baseball Analytics.

Alburquerque’s Devestating Slider: David Pinto of Baseball Analytics gives you the heat maps on Al Albuquerque’s mean slide-piece.

Scherzer’s Slider: David Pinto of Baseball Analytics looks at Max Scherzer’s improved slider.

Ethier’s Adjustment: David Pinto of Baseball Analytics explains how Andre Ethier adjusted to opponents pitching him away.

Alex Rodriguez Up in the Zone: A-Rod is killing pitches at the top of the strike zone this season, writes Jonathan Scippa of Baseball Analytics.

More Change Ups for Matt Cain: At Baseball Analytics, David Pinto uses heat maps to show how different Matt Cain’s pitch selection has been so far this season.

Video – Batter heat maps on NESN: TruMedia’s strike-zone heat maps were featured during a recent Red Sox game.