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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35 comments
Comments
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 NYRoyal on Feb 24, 2009 9:50 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
Not that I posted this trying to make a point or anything ;)
realistically speaking
by slayor on Feb 24, 2009 10:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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 devil_fingers on Feb 26, 2009 11:33 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
did not realize the slow curve was so prominent
by royalsreview on Feb 24, 2009 9:51 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
Yeah I think he usually waits to use that pitch until he's got two strikes on a batter
And then the plate appearance is over.
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by NYRoyal on Feb 24, 2009 10:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
matter of degree
just didn’t realize it was accounting for more Ks than everything else combined
by royalsreview on Feb 25, 2009 12:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 0 recs
Dan Uggla agrees
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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 25, 2009 10:30 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
hahahaha
+1 sir.
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by doublestix on Feb 25, 2009 12:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
interesting trend...
100% of Soria’s strikeouts came with 2 strikes.
by ZeppelinDZ on Feb 24, 2009 10:16 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
I doubt that's sustainable
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by NYRoyal on Feb 24, 2009 10:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i'm going to need a graph of that
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by devil_fingers on Feb 24, 2009 11:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
He, he's still young
He has time to improve.
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by NYRoyal on Feb 24, 2009 11:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
I think it's a little difficult to figure out who Christina Kahrl gets horny for
She’s more complicated than average.
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by NYRoyal on Feb 26, 2009 12:53 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
ha ha...small sample size much?
TPJ...you're dead to me
by billybeingbilly on Feb 27, 2009 2:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
well, don't forget about HALLIE BODLEY
Or Josephine Poznanski
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 27, 2009 9:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 0 recs
I have no faith in umps to call the third strike
though maybe soria has enough of a rep now
by royalsreview on Feb 25, 2009 12:34 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
they do well enough with Gordon
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by devil_fingers on Feb 26, 2009 11:34 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 0 recs
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 devil_fingers on Feb 26, 2009 11:35 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs

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