2009 MLB Futures PITCHf/x

by Harry Pavlidis on Jul 14, 2009 9:00 PM EDT

The kids were out to play Sunday night in St. Louis. Some live arms and hard to classify breaking stuff a'plenty (slider? curveball?).

Pitch types and some stats after the jump...click the headers to sort,

pitcher	cfx	#	vs LHH	vs RHH	MPH	PFX_X	PFX_Z	DEG	RPM
Brad Lincoln	Curveball	2	1	1	82.3	5.5	-9.8	29.5	2,053.2
Brad Lincoln	Fastball	12	8	4	94.7	-5.4	7.0	217.9	1,881.2
Brian Matusz	Change	5	0	5	84.0	4.8	6.1	141.7	1,466.6
Brian Matusz	Sinker	4	0	4	93.3	5.9	7.7	142.4	2,029.2
Brian Matusz	Fastball	4	1	3	94.4	2.9	9.5	163.5	2,072.5
Casey Kelly	Curveball	2	2	0	82.9	4.9	-5.8	40.6	1,413.5
Casey Kelly	Sinker	1	1	0	93.4	-8.7	3.3	249.4	1,931.1
Casey Kelly	Fastball	6	5	1	94.1	-6.5	7.5	221.0	2,087.7
Chia-Jen Lo	Curveball	4	0	4	74.7	5.5	-10.0	29.2	1,877.0
Chia-Jen Lo	Fastball	16	5	11	94.0	-4.6	7.9	209.9	1,915.9
Chris Tillman	Change	3	1	2	82.2	-7.7	7.2	226.8	1,937.8
Chris Tillman	Curveball	4	0	4	80.1	1.2	-10.1	6.8	1,805.4
Chris Tillman	Fastball	18	1	17	94.7	-5.6	8.2	214.0	2,092.8
Danny Duffy	Change	1	1	0	84.1	9.4	4.9	117.5	1,986.5
Danny Duffy	Curveball	2	1	1	74.2	-6.6	-8.6	322.5	1,772.7
Danny Duffy	Fastball	6	3	3	93.3	2.3	9.7	166.6	2,081.5
Francisco Samuel	Fastball	9	6	3	97.0	-8.5	5.8	235.1	2,247.5
Francisco Samuel	Slider	5	0	5	89.4	0.1	1.6	156.3	483.8
Jarrod Parker	Curveball	1	0	1	83.2	1.7	-2.8	31.0	598.1
Jarrod Parker	Fastball	3	0	3	96.4	-7.4	7.2	226.1	2,210.2
Jhoulys Chacin	Change	4	3	1	85.9	-5.4	3.0	242.3	1,191.8
Jhoulys Chacin	Curveball	4	3	1	81.7	6.1	-3.6	60.7	1,329.9
Jhoulys Chacin	Sinker	4	3	1	91.6	-7.6	0.1	270.0	1,585.5
Jhoulys Chacin	Fastball	4	4	0	94.0	-3.7	5.4	213.9	1,367.2
Juan Carlos Sulbaran	Change	5	3	2	82.9	-11.3	5.7	243.2	2,314.8
Juan Carlos Sulbaran	Sinker	12	11	1	91.0	-8.4	5.8	235.1	2,078.6
Juan Carlos Sulbaran	Fastball	2	0	2	92.2	-3.2	8.7	199.5	1,926.1
Kyle Drabek	Change	1	1	0	84.5	-6.5	0.5	265.5	1,221.2
Kyle Drabek	Curveball	2	1	1	82.7	-0.7	-5.5	349.4	1,024.5
Kyle Drabek	Fastball	6	2	4	95.9	-6.3	7.5	220.1	2,079.9
Leyson Septimo	Change	3	0	3	86.7	8.8	1.9	102.4	1,727.9
Leyson Septimo	Sinker	1	0	1	95.6	7.1	3.1	113.3	1,655.0
Leyson Septimo	Fastball	6	1	5	95.9	6.4	6.5	135.4	1,948.5
Leyson Septimo	Slider	5	3	2	84.0	-2.5	0.3	258.1	512.5
Luis Perez	Change	2	0	2	83.1	7.3	1.0	98.5	1,363.5
Luis Perez	Curveball	4	2	2	81.0	-4.3	-3.1	309.2	1,019.8
Luis Perez	Sinker	6	4	2	91.9	9.6	1.5	99.3	1,979.0
Luis Perez	Fastball	5	1	4	92.2	8.0	4.6	120.0	1,894.6
Mat Latos	Curveball	1	0	1	83.4	0.7	-3.8	10.0	708.1
Mat Latos	Fastball	7	2	5	96.4	-4.8	9.2	207.6	2,226.8
Neftali Feliz	Change	3	3	0	89.7	-10.5	2.7	255.1	2,167.5
Neftali Feliz	Curveball	2	0	2	80.6	3.0	-2.9	45.9	749.2
Neftali Feliz	Fastball	17	12	5	99.4	-9.0	7.2	230.9	2,544.1
Trevor Reckling	Change	3	0	3	82.5	7.0	4.4	122.1	1,526.6
Trevor Reckling	Fastball	9	2	7	91.4	6.5	7.2	137.7	1,962.5
Trevor Reckling	Cutter	1	0	1	90.2	2.0	7.5	165.3	1,550.0
Trevor Reckling	Slider	5	2	3	82.2	-3.3	-2.9	308.0	833.1
Yohan Flande	Change	1	0	1	85.8	2.5	8.5	163.9	1,673.6
Yohan Flande	Fastball	6	2	4	91.4	1.3	6.3	168.7	1,332.0
Yohan Flande	Slider	5	0	5	84.1	-1.5	1.3	225.3	493.2

Here are the 14 fastest pitches from the Futures Game, all courtesy of Neftali Feliz.

Yikes. And his change-up is about 90 mph.

I'll leave you with some stats.

pitcher	#	Swing	Whiff	B:CS	In Wide Zone	Chase	Watch	SLGCON	GB
Brad Lincoln	14	0.5000	0.1429	2.5000	0.7857	0.0000	0.3636	1.3333	0.3333
Brian Matusz	13	0.5385	0.2857		0.3846	0.2500	0.0000	0.0000	1.0000
Casey Kelly	9	0.4444	0.0000	1.5000	0.6667	0.0000	0.3333	0.0000	0.3333
Chia-Jen Lo	20	0.2000	0.2500	14.0000	0.4500	0.0000	0.4444	0.0000	0.5000
Chris Tillman	25	0.4400	0.0909	5.5000	0.4800	0.2308	0.3333	0.5000	1.0000
Danny Duffy	9	0.3333	0.3333	4.0000	0.5556	0.0000	0.2000	0.0000	1.0000
Francisco Samuel	14	0.3571	0.4000		0.3571	0.2222	0.4000	2.0000	0.0000
Jarrod Parker	4	0.2500	0.0000	2.0000	0.7500	0.0000	0.6667	0.0000	0.0000
Jhoulys Chacin	16	0.5000	0.7500	7.0000	0.3750	0.3000	0.1667	0.0000	1.0000
Juan Carlos Sulbaran	19	0.3684	0.2857	11.0000	0.3158	0.2308	0.3333	0.0000	0.0000
Kyle Drabek	9	0.4444	0.2500	1.5000	0.5556	0.5000	0.6000	0.0000	0.5000
Leyson Septimo	15	0.4667	0.7143	1.6667	0.4000	0.3333	0.3333	1.0000	1.0000
Luis Perez	17	0.4706	0.3750	1.2500	0.7059	0.4000	0.5000	1.2000	0.2000
Mat Latos	8	0.5000	0.2500	1.0000	0.6250	0.3333	0.4000	0.0000	0.6667
Neftali Feliz	22	0.5000	0.3636	2.6667	0.5000	0.4545	0.4545	0.0000	0.0000
Trevor Reckling	18	0.5000	0.1111	2.0000	0.4444	0.4000	0.3750	1.0000	0.7500
Yohan Flande	12	0.6667	0.2500	3.0000	0.6667	0.2500	0.1250	0.5000	0.5000

Up next, New Arms of the Week, big league style.

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Neftali Feliz

Very cool. The stupid ESPN radar gun at Feliz at 92-95. Glad to see they were doing it wrong.

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by hubcityraider on Jul 16, 2009 11:23 AM EDT reply actions