{"id":8759,"date":"2014-04-09T09:17:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T13:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8759"},"modified":"2014-04-09T09:17:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T13:17:43","slug":"yordano-ventura-mlbs-newest-velocity-revalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8759","title":{"rendered":"Yordano Ventura: MLB’s newest velocity revalation"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ventura<\/a>

Ventura has some serious heat. Poto Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

I present to you without further ado Kansas City’s\u00a0Yordano Ventura<\/strong>‘s Pitch F\/X stats<\/a> from last night’s MLB debut start.<\/p>\n

According to Pitch F\/X, he threw 45 fastballs on the night with an AVERAGE velocity of 99.5mph, peaking at an absurd 102.9mph on one of the final pitches he threw as he finished off 6 shutout innings against the Rays. \u00a0He’s 5’11” and 180 soaking wet.<\/p>\n

Lest you think he only has one pitch, he has a sick 89mph change with circle action (i.e., coming back in against righties); he threw 19 of them last night and 13 of those 19 change ups were “SNIPs,” or “Strikes not in play.” \u00a0In other words … exactly what a pitcher wants. \u00a0 He only gave up one ball-in-play on his changeup the entire night. \u00a0He also featured a curve that has somewhere in the 16mph range difference from his fastballs (by way of comparison, everyone raves about guys like Strasburg<\/strong> and Kershaw<\/strong>‘s fb-curve deltas, as I talked about in this post from last year<\/a>, and Ventura is right up there). \u00a0 He threw a 4th pitch (a cutter in the 96-98mph range) but its awfully hard to tell if it had much action on it, or which pitches Pitch F\/X thought were cutters versus just him taking a couple MPH off his fastball.<\/p>\n

Fun to watch, absolutely. \u00a0Lets hope he’s not a TJ-surgery in waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I present to you without further ado Kansas City’s\u00a0Yordano Ventura‘s Pitch F\/X stats from last night’s MLB debut start. According to Pitch F\/X, he threw 45 fastballs on the night with an AVERAGE velocity of 99.5mph, peaking at an absurd 102.9mph on one of the final pitches he threw as he finished off 6 shutout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[346,426,38,2232],"class_list":["post-8759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-adam-wainwright","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-yordano-ventura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8762,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}