IIRC baseball savant does. I checked their site, he threw his FS FB 41%, more then any other pitch, Change up 6.6%, slider 29.2% and cutter 22.6%,
I swear, Maton always pitches better when he's protecting a Verlander lead. He always comes through in those situations.
Thanks. His average is right at 50% on the season, so this was certainly a substantial dip in fastball% today. Although he threw a ton of curveballs today, not sure about the breakdown of pitches you listed. JV really doesn't throw a "cutter", and surely not at a rate of nearly a quarter of his pitches. I would have guessed be threw closer to 33% fastballs today, kinda surprised it topped 40%. Edit: just looked at the savant website, yeah he only throws FB, Slider, Curve and changeup. Not sure where you got that info, but it's obviously not JV's breakdown of today's pitches.
My bad, Oops, its a curve ball not cutter. Check their site, its pretty packed full of everything you could want info on.
Yep I finally found how to get to the game breakdown. Yeah curveball obviously. Great info. An analytical mind's treasure trove of goodies.
Verlander has won 238 games in his career. I hope he does get there. He says he wants to pitch until he's 45. If he can he will almost certainly be the last.
Still a double digit lead in the division, but I would be lying if I said that this streak wasn’t annoying.
Here's the thing: They're peaking way too early. They can't and won't keep this up. They might get it down to 7 or 8 games before the losing sets back in.
Let’s just announce a 3 year 90 million extension for JV at the all star game and watch him get to 305 wins or so by the end of that contract (averaging 19 a season). 20 per season average seems greedy and uncouth.
Does kind of feel that way doesn’t it. Can’t say that thought hasn’t crossed my mind. Perhaps a bigger problem will be complacency with the Yanks and the Stros practically running away with the AL’s top 2 seeds. Might just be a matter of which one flips the switch back on the post-season assuming one of both do find motivation problems in the dog days
Watching the game late on mlb, it was blacked out out here, and announcers mentioned Maldonado had an OPS of .986 this month. That was before his grand slam.
They had no chance against Verlander. Even our no name lineup couldn't screw up a win. And Maldanado as the hitting hero is very unlikely. Seattle is red hot and closing. We need everybody back to cool them off in the second half.
