Vance Worley: Very low rate of swing-and-miss |
But he does get swings-and-misses: 17 percent. That's a solid rate for a starter. The Red Sox' top three starters, for example: Jon Lester, 14 percent; John Lackey, 16 percent, Clay Buchholtz, 15 percent.
Phil Hughes, on the other hand, does throw hard (average fastball exceeds 92 mph) and throws his fastball quite a bit (more than 60 percent of the time).
He gets, or did in 2013, somewhat fewer swings and misses, 14 percent.
This should be no surprise — Nolasco's swing-and-miss rate was considerably higher than anybody's in the 2013 Twins rotation, and Hughes would rank up there as well. (Listed in order of starts, each had at least eight):
- Kevin Correia: 10 percent
- Mike Pelfrey (free agent): 10 percent
- Scott Diamond: 10 percent
- Sam Deduno: 13 percent
- Pedro Hernandez (released): 10 percent
- Kyle Gibson: 14 percent
- Vance Worley: 7 percent (wince)
- Andrew Albers: 10 percent
- Liam Hendriks: 14 percent
- P.J. Walters (released): 10 percent
Andrew Albers: Two-thirds of his pitches were strikes. |
- Nolasco: 64 percent
- Hughes: 67 percent
- Correia: 63 percent
- Pelfrey: 61 percent
- Diamond: 62 percent
- Deduno: 61 percent
- Hernandez: 60 percent
- Gibson: 59 percent (wince)
- Worley: 63 percent
- Albers: 67 percent
- Hendriks: 63 percent
- Walters: 61 percent
Hughes and Andrew Albers really do pound the strike zone.
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