Pitchers

This page provides a look at pitch characteristics, with a table looking at the average of a pitcher’s main pitch qualities with plots of the distribution of velocity, pitch movement scatter, and the spin direction. This page will get updated with more tools and more years, as it is presently just 2020. Search a pitcher in the tab to view their information. Data comes from Baseball Savant and release spin data comes from Bill Petti. Vertical approach angle and horizontal approach angle help comes from Harry Pavlidis, with horizontal approach angle being standardized by pitcher; in other words a negative horizontal approach angle shows that a pitch comes into the zone moving towards a pitcher’s glove side.