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Sox & Nats, 6/4/19, Rey & Strasburg


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If anyone wants to feel even worse about going up against Strasburg tonight, continue reading below. 

(Per RotoGrinders)

 

Stephen Strasburg is having his usual dominant year, but he’s not standing still; this year, he’s upped his curveball usage to 30.4 percent, 14th-highest in MLB (min. 500 pitches). It’s an elite offering, and he’s allowed just one extra-base hit in 81 plate appearances ending with the pitch: a double to Pete Alonso back on March 30th. That amounts to a .013 ISO against the pitch (and that’s not a typo). Here’s hoping he makes liberal use of his Uncle Charlie against the White Sox, who rank 27th in team wOBA against curveballs (.236). And if we pull up the PlateIQ to see how the individual White Sox hitters have fared against the pitch, it’s a massacre of red:

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The lone bright spot is projected #9 hitter Charlie Tilson, in eight batted ball events (and that’s a Derek Carty-certified small sample size). Even if we zoom out a bit to the less granular, we can see this is a matchup Strasburg should exploit, as the White Sox have the second-highest strikeout rate in MLB against right-handed pitching (26.4%).

 

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