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Joakim Soria: Strikeout by Pitch

Just for fun:

 

Fastball (Pitch F/X determined)

Slider (75mph+)

Curveball (<75mph)

Changeup (Pitch F/X determined)

March 31
K - 83mph, slider (swinging) - 2-2
April 2
K- 68mph, curveball (swinging) - 0-2
K- 92mph, fastball (swinging) - 3-2
K- 70mph, curveball (swinging) - 1-2
April 6
K- 68mph, curveball (swinging) - 0-2
K- 90mph, fastball (looking) - 2-2
K- 69mph, curveball (looking) - 0-2
April 15
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 1-2
April 16
K- 68mph, curveball (swinging) - 2-2
K- 68mph, curveball (looking) - 0-2
April 24
K- 68mph, curveball (swinging) - 0-2
April 29
K- 92mph, fastball (swinging) - 3-2
K- 86mph, changeup (swinging) - 3-2
May 3
K- 68mph, curveball (swinging) - 1-2
K- 92mph, fastball (swinging) - 0-2
May 11
K- 91mph, fastball (swinging) - 1-2
May 14
K- 83mph, changeup (swinging) - 3-2
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 1-2
May 16
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 1-2
K- 70mph, curveball (swinging) - 0-2
May 21
K- 82mph, slider (swinging) - 1-2
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 0-2
May 26
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 0-2
May 27
K- 78mph, slider (swinging) - 1-2
K- 79mph, slider (looking) - 1-2
May 31
K- 66mph, curveball (swinging) - 1-2
June 6
K- 91mph, fastball (looking) - 0-2
K- 92mph, fastball (swinging) - 3-2
June 9
K- 92mph, fastball (swinging) - 0-2
June 12
K- 91mph, fastball (swinging) - 3-2
June 17
K- 68mph, curveball (swinging) - 0-2
June 19
K- 82mph, slider (swinging) - 1-2
June 21
K- 70mph, curveball (swnging) - 1-2
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 2-2
June 22
K- 93mph, fastball (looking) - 0-2
June 25
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 1-2
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 1-2
June 30
K- 68mph, curveball (swinging) - 0-2
K- 77mph, slider (swinging) - 1-2
July 3
K- 91mph, fastball (looking) - 1-2
K- 70mph, curveball (swingng) - 0-2
July 7
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 0-2
K- 77mph, slider (swinging) - 2-2
K- 67mph, curveball (looking) - 0-2
July 11
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 1-2
July 13
K- 90mph, fastball (swnging) - 2-2
July 20
K- 70mph, curveball (swinging) - 1-2
K- 68mph, curveball (swinging) - 0-2
July 24
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) - 2-2
July 29
K- 91mph, fastball (looking) - 1-2
K- 79mph, slider (swinging) 1-2
August 2
K- 91mph, fastball (swinging) 2-2
K- 68mph, curveball (swinging) 1-2
August 4
K- 90mph, fastball (swinging) 3-2
August 10
K- 68mph, curveball (swinging) 1-2
K- 69mph, curveball (swinging) 1-2
K- 90mph, fastball (looking) 0-2
K- 76mph, slider (looking) 0-2
Sep 2
K- 79mph, slider (swinging) 2-2
Sep 4
K- 81mph, changeup (swinging) 1-2
Sep 6
K- 85mph, changeup (swinging) 1-2
Sep 11
K- 84mph, changeup (swinging) 2-2
Sep 15
K- 85mph, changeup (swinging) 2-2
Sep 16
K- 67mph, curveball (swinging) 1-2
Sep 20
K- 84mph, changeup (swinging) 0-2
K- 70mph, curveball (swinging) 1-2

Strikeouts on changeup: 7

Strikeouts on slider: 10

Strikeouts on fastball: 16

Strikeouts on slow curve: 33

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Nice mix of out pitches

So he can get batters out with four different pitches? Sounds like a starting pitcher. No, what am I thinking.

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by Scott McKinney on Feb 24, 2009 9:50 PM EST reply actions  

knock it off...the closer is very important...

i mean, look at how successful the yanks, twins and royals were last year

TPJ...you're dead to me

by billybeingbilly on Feb 24, 2009 10:00 PM EST up reply actions  

IF IT AIN'T BROKE DONT FIX IT!

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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 25, 2009 10:29 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

hee hee

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by Matt Klaassen on Feb 26, 2009 11:33 AM EST up reply actions  

he doesn't throw it very often

But it has generally been his go-to strikeout pitch for as long as I can remember.

by DarthYoshi on Feb 24, 2009 9:55 PM EST up reply actions  

not to be a dick

but are you serious? that’s his f’ing trademark pitch.

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by doublestix on Feb 24, 2009 11:05 PM EST up reply actions  

matter of degree

just didn’t realize it was accounting for more Ks than everything else combined

by Freneau on Feb 25, 2009 12:15 AM EST up reply actions  

fair enough

it probably would have been more if he hadn’t lost some feel for it at the end of the year. started going to the changeup more.

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by doublestix on Feb 25, 2009 12:20 AM EST up reply actions  

Maybe he doesn't make it stand out of the arsenal

the MacDougal could and make you wonder “Why doesn’t he do that more?”

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by JayhawkTom on Feb 25, 2009 11:03 AM EST up reply actions  

The slow curve did account for

making a lot of batters look really bad.

by AxDxMx on Feb 27, 2009 1:31 AM EST up reply actions  

Dan Uggla agrees

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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 25, 2009 10:30 AM EST up reply actions  

hahahaha

+1 sir.

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by doublestix on Feb 25, 2009 12:32 PM EST up reply actions  

i'm going to need a graph of that

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by Matt Klaassen on Feb 24, 2009 11:10 PM EST up reply actions  

If he were a real pitcher

he’d have more 1-strike Ks.

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by jonfmorse on Feb 24, 2009 11:18 PM EST up reply actions  

He, he's still young

He has time to improve.

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by Scott McKinney on Feb 24, 2009 11:51 PM EST up reply actions  

screw that.........

I’m hornier than Christina Kahrl at a Tug Hulet convention to get the season started……

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 25, 2009 9:36 PM EST up reply actions  

I hear you

I’m just being the knuckle dragging cretin…..a less than oblique reference to a comment she made on a recent transaction analysis, something about “tooting Tug’s horn” . . . . maybe its just me, viewing the world thru my beavis lenses, but Christina pushes the double entendres more than the average transgendered baseball writer.

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 26, 2009 5:43 PM EST up reply actions  

i like

11/66 = 17% looking

I have no clue if this is good, bad, average. But, it struck me as more than I expected and so I like that. Is this a stat that is tracked somewhere?

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by kabrink on Feb 24, 2009 11:32 PM EST reply actions  

Actually, I think you want more swinging strikeouts than looking

I’m pretty sure the team average for strikeouts looking vs swinging in the american league is something like 25-27%, but I have nothing to back that up

realistically speaking

by slayor on Feb 25, 2009 12:01 AM EST up reply actions  

Well, I guess swinging vs looking both mean "fooled" although I guess to me looking is more so, i.e. "baffled"

But, your post is kind of hilarious. You “have nothing to back that up” but come up with a very precise 25 – 27%. WTF?

:-p

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by kabrink on Feb 25, 2009 12:14 AM EST up reply actions  

they do well enough with Gordon

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by Matt Klaassen on Feb 26, 2009 11:34 AM EST up reply actions  

Oh, I remember reading that number on a website somewhere

I just don’t remember what one or where. Just seems like it was somewhere in that range. NYRoyal, prove me wrong!

realistically speaking

by slayor on Feb 25, 2009 1:53 AM EST up reply actions  

It's interesting that 5 of his final 7 strikeouts were changeups

Considering he only had 7 strikeouts from changeups all season. Perhaps he’s developed a new “out” pitch…

by marbotty on Feb 25, 2009 5:51 AM EST reply actions  

i remembered that

i remember that at the end of the year his curve was going away from him. he started to bury in the dirt a lot so he just started using the changeup.

the man is pure filth.

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by doublestix on Feb 25, 2009 12:33 PM EST up reply actions  

or maybe he's just smart and realized that they'd be expecting his other pitches in those counts

every thing I read/think about this guy says he’s being wasted

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by Matt Klaassen on Feb 26, 2009 11:35 AM EST up reply actions  

It is also telling

How rarely he lets a hitter get to a 3-2 count. Only 3 times where he still K’d them. The man is efficient. Lots and lots of 1-2 and 0-2 counts.

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by kcbottom9th on Feb 25, 2009 8:35 AM EST reply actions  

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