but still finished fourth in AL Cy Young Award voting with a 2.11 ERA and a 38.4% strikeout rate. Had Sale been healthy, he would’ve had a good shot that year, too. His average strikeout rate was 33.2% in his injury-shortened seasons -- if he had faced 750 batters in those years...
For one thing, Brown's strikeout numbers are very encouraging: He had 178 K's in 155 2/3 innings last season. And the 25-year-old's stuff supports that 10.3 K/9. Brown's fastball averages 96 mph with above-average rise, his slider averages 91 mph, his curveball gets five inches...
He had a 6.4% strikeout rate in the big leagues last year, on the heels of a 3.0% strikeout rate in his minor league career, when the MLB average is 23%. Madrigal's extreme contact approach fits in with current trends, but he doesn't have room for much growth. On the bright side...
but it was accompanied by a .209 average and a .284 on-base percentage, which left him with a 95 OPS+ overall. He also saw his production plummet after the All-Star break, as he hit just .174/.270/.343 with eight home runs and a 26.5 percent strikeout rate during the second...
A draft-eligible sophomore, Smith made huge gains in his second year with the Seminoles, improving from a .258 average and .843 OPS to .387 and 1.142, with nearly as many walks (44) as strikeouts (48). He has already made some mechanical adjustments at the plate,...
there. Diaz’s strikeout and walk rates in the majors have been ugly, but he whiffed 22.9% of his opponents in Tacoma last year against a 9.9% walk rate. That’s a roughly average strikeout rate and a still worse-than-average walk rate, but both are a far sight better than his MLB...
average on balls in play and a 77.9% strand rate, but his 3.69 FIP and 3.72 SIERA suggest he still would have been effective even with neutral fortune from the baseball gods. His 20.2% strikeout rate was down a bit from the year prior but he also dropped his walk rate all the way ...
Between five teams, Zastryzny has thrown 67 innings with a 4.30 earned run average in his MLB career. He had a nice year with Milwaukee’s top affiliate in Nashville last year. Zastrynzny managed a 3.03 ERA with an excellent 32.5% strikeout rate across 29 2/3 frames. That intrigued the...
SO (Strikeouts):SO indicates the number of times a pitcher has struck out a batter. HR (Home Runs):HR indicates the number of home runs hit by batters the pitcher has faced. ERA (Earned Run Average):ERA measures how many earned runs a pitcher surrenders per nine innings pitched. ...
Puk emerged as one of the best high-leverage relievers in the National League a year ago, pitching to a solid .209 Expected Batting Average and striking out 32.2% of the batters he faced. In doing so, he walked just 5.4% of them, continuing with an improving trend over the last two ...