Curious to your point about Reynaldo and his FA being so low. What was it like the seasons before when he was dialing it up every pitch out of the bullpen? If he's truly had the stuff on the fastball before, but chooses to reserve the energy in the tank for innings then maybe this system has a hard time gauging him?
What you will notice is nobody besides Jimenez & Minter have a stuff+ fastball but everyone on the braves have a wipe-out slider and the ones that have a Change Up are elite. Part of that might be that they all use the fastball to make those other pitches play up which would make a lot of pitching sense and maybe shows us more on the Braves pitching philosophy. Will be interesting to see what Strider's fastball grades this season or maybe you have that from previous seasons too.
This is the first time I'm really seeing this data and just trying to make sense of it all I guess. Interesting stuff none the less.
You're 100% right that López's fastball is probably underrated because of how he ramps up the velo when he has runners on - back in 2023, he had a 104 Stuff+ on the heater and a 100 in 2022.
Strider's fastball grade in 2023 was a 115 - that was the 13th-best fastball grade in all of baseball and 4th among starters
LOVE Stuff+! Such a quick, easy way to quickly analyze a pitcher’s arsenal. Best part, it’s simple enough to understand for fans who are new to advanced statistics.
Very nice analysis👍🏼🍿
Curious to your point about Reynaldo and his FA being so low. What was it like the seasons before when he was dialing it up every pitch out of the bullpen? If he's truly had the stuff on the fastball before, but chooses to reserve the energy in the tank for innings then maybe this system has a hard time gauging him?
What you will notice is nobody besides Jimenez & Minter have a stuff+ fastball but everyone on the braves have a wipe-out slider and the ones that have a Change Up are elite. Part of that might be that they all use the fastball to make those other pitches play up which would make a lot of pitching sense and maybe shows us more on the Braves pitching philosophy. Will be interesting to see what Strider's fastball grades this season or maybe you have that from previous seasons too.
This is the first time I'm really seeing this data and just trying to make sense of it all I guess. Interesting stuff none the less.
You're 100% right that López's fastball is probably underrated because of how he ramps up the velo when he has runners on - back in 2023, he had a 104 Stuff+ on the heater and a 100 in 2022.
Strider's fastball grade in 2023 was a 115 - that was the 13th-best fastball grade in all of baseball and 4th among starters
LOVE Stuff+! Such a quick, easy way to quickly analyze a pitcher’s arsenal. Best part, it’s simple enough to understand for fans who are new to advanced statistics.
Thanks for the idea! I enjoyed your article the other day and was inspired to try it myself.
Oh that's awesome! Royals-Braves play a late July series, let me know if you'd want to connect for a joint series preview!