Graph of the Day: Ricky Romero's big league debut

by erik on Apr 10, 2009 4:15 PM EDT

Movement

There was another rookie who made his debut pitching opposite of Rick Porcello yesterday.

Type	#	Avg. MPH
F4	39	91.44
F2	10	84.82
CU	22	78.9
CH	4	81
SL	18	82.56

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What's the graph showing?

Release? Movement? No label…

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by mlbnotebook on Apr 10, 2009 4:17 PM EDT reply actions

just noticed after I hit publish

it’s movement.

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by erik on Apr 10, 2009 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Release Point

Man, imagine a chart that looked like that on the release point! I would imagine something like a 6 year old may look like that on a release scale lol.

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by dougdirt on Apr 10, 2009 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Must've slipped and fallen a few times.

Either that or they have an inner ear problem

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by mlbnotebook on Apr 10, 2009 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Interesting Slider

Apparently it moves both ways? As does his curveball. I’m gonna give Erik the benefit of the doubt and blame Gameday.

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by mlbnotebook on Apr 10, 2009 4:21 PM EDT reply actions

i was a pitch fx virgin b/f today

i agree, that’s gotta be a curve.

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by erik on Apr 10, 2009 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions

It's fun stuff

Keeps me entertained for hours

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by mlbnotebook on Apr 10, 2009 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions

any chance

that he throws two distinctly different curveballs? Those on the right side could be misclassified, but is that what a 12-6 would love like? Not much break if it is.

by Navi's_Navy on Apr 12, 2009 7:50 AM EDT up reply actions

I don't think so

I think the data is about 3-5 inches off vertically. I’ll guess four-seam, two-seam, slider, curve and splitter.

by Harry Pavlidis on Apr 12, 2009 8:50 AM EDT up reply actions

well darn

harry, i am obviously not. i probably should not have jumped in with a post just yet. good way to learn, i guess.

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by erik on Apr 10, 2009 4:33 PM EDT reply actions

This is a good example of mis-labels from Gameday. Folks should really look more closely and ID them more accurately post hoc. If you blog it, MLBAM may see it and use your “better” ids to tweak their profile for that pitcher, resulting in better ids moving forward.

by Harry Pavlidis on Apr 10, 2009 8:33 PM EDT up reply actions