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Kyle Lohse
PITCHf/x: 3.6%, 88.9 mph, -7.1 H-move, 9.4 V-move
Results: 0% SwStrk, 64.4% Strk, -3.2 wFB, -0.2 FB/C
Four-seam fastballs are not usually about whiffs. And obviously there’s some sort of classification thing going on with his sinker and his fastball — he probably didn’t just drop his fastball usage down to under four percent last year. He’s probably been using his sinker like other pitchers use their fastballs for a while now. But that does mean something. (It means he knows that fastball isn’t very good.) Sure, it gets an okay strike rate, but in our PITCHf/x database he didn’t get a single whiff on the pitch (n=101). And even if the fastball isn’t usually about ground balls, Lohse only got grounders on 26% of his four-seamers. To make matters worse, the Cardinal starter only gets ground balls on 41% of his sinkers — and barely any whiffs either. Back to the four-seamer — know that if you’re seeing it, better be ready to swing because you’ll make contact and that contact won’t burn worms. John Lackey had a two-seamer that didn’t get a single whiff (n=68), so he deserves an ‘honorable’ mention.
Video: How are you going to get video of a bad pitch? By searching for ‘home run, Kyle Lohse, fastball.’ Look at this nice, straight, 81 MPH meatball served up to Laynce Nix last season.
Kyle Lohse
PITCHf/x: 3.6%, 88.9 mph, -7.1 H-move, 9.4 V-move
Results: 0% SwStrk, 64.4% Strk, -3.2 wFB, -0.2 FB/C
Four-seam fastballs are not usually about whiffs. And obviously there’s some sort of classification thing going on with his sinker and his fastball — he probably didn’t just drop his fastball usage down to under four percent last year. He’s probably been using his sinker like other pitchers use their fastballs for a while now. But that does mean something. (It means he knows that fastball isn’t very good.) Sure, it gets an okay strike rate, but in our PITCHf/x database he didn’t get a single whiff on the pitch (n=101). And even if the fastball isn’t usually about ground balls, Lohse only got grounders on 26% of his four-seamers. To make matters worse, the Cardinal starter only gets ground balls on 41% of his sinkers — and barely any whiffs either. Back to the four-seamer — know that if you’re seeing it, better be ready to swing because you’ll make contact and that contact won’t burn worms. John Lackey had a two-seamer that didn’t get a single whiff (n=68), so he deserves an ‘honorable’ mention.
Video: How are you going to get video of a bad pitch? By searching for ‘home run, Kyle Lohse, fastball.’ Look at this nice, straight, 81 MPH meatball served up to Laynce Nix last season.
101 pitches, and not a single missed swing? Ridiculously bad.
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