Yet in only 46 career outings, he’s registered the most strikeouts (54) on pitches thrown 100-plus mph of all starters in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008). Plus, the 6-foot-5 24-year-old has a 12.0 career K/9 rate and is working on adding a curveball and a splitter to ...
Out of the gates, the North Siders have featured an offense near or at the top of the Senior Circuit in runs scored, walk rate, strikeout rate and on-base percentage. The Cubs had a top-third offense in ‘23 and retained much of the same group. But beyond that, there are early sig...
The Orioles added starting pitchers Zach Eflin, whose strikeout rate has dropped from 9.4 per nine innings last year to 7.3 this year, and Trevor Rogers, who in three years has lost 2 mph off his fastball and this year has the worst WHIP of any pitcher with 100 innings. They picked up...
Gray has performed reasonably well since signing in Texas but has been injured each season and watched his strikeout rate drop in consecutive years. The 32-year-old righty (33 next month) made only 19 starts this season and pitched to a serviceable 4.47 ERA with a 19.6% strikeout rate, 6.4...
Combine that with a 28.4% strikeout rate, and he somehow ranked first among all qualified players in hard-hit rate but 70th in wRC+. While his 2023 season was packed with ups and downs, the 30-year-old third baseman has been a model of consistency ever since his debut in 2017. ...
Strider is coming off a 20-win season while leading the majors with 281 strikeouts and holding batters to a .210 average. His ERA, however, was 3.86, a run higher than his component numbers would suggest. That could be random or it could be that he loses something with runners on ...
Still, hitters have cut down slightly on strikeouts: the rate of 8.36 per team per game this season is the lowest since 2017, down from 8.61 last year and a record 8.81 in 2019. “There’s more spin rate. There’s harder throwers,” San Diego star third basema...
So far, he has been better. His exit velocity is up, he's walking some and his strikeout rate is way down. There still isn't much power here -- his 17 home runs in 2019 look like a stone-cold fluke, reflective of the extra-juiced ball that season -- but if h...
Houston is right around the league average in OPS against left handers this season, and Skubal has been on a tear. I believe the Tigers ace that has a 1.92 ERA with a 31% strikeout rate can keep it rolling on the road against an overrated Astros team. ...
Kpct_plusPitching strikeout rate indexed relative to league average (which is always 100). BBpct_plusPitching walk rate indexed relative to league average (which is always 100). oppAVG_plusOpponent's batting average indexed relative to league average (which is always 100). ...