Sandy Alcantara He still hasn’t found the formula that at least brings him closer to the 2022 Cy Young standard and the Cardinals’ lineup, on Wednesday, took advantage of the listening report that discovers the holes in the azuano’s repertoire.
This campaign, Sandy Alcantara He has thrown 102 fewer innings than he worked last year (228.2), but he has already allowed 66 earned runs, eight more than those allowed when he was unanimously voted the best pitcher in the National League.
After appearing in 20 games, he is 3-9 and his ERA stands at 4.70, far from the 2.28 he had in 2022. His WHIP (hits and walks per inning) now stands at 1.28, also down from 0.98 the previous season.
His adjusted ERA, which measures a pitcher’s contribution relative to the rest of the league, stands at 93, seven points below the average pitcher. The previous campaign was 176.
There are no physical problems and the speed remains intact, with his fastballs topping the average of 97.9 miles and the sinker at 97.5. But rivals have found a way to hit his changeup and it is the only red spot in the ocean of data that teams use to study each player.
Only the sinker (29%) outperforms the changeup (28%) in Alcantara’s arsenal, with fastballs relegated to 22% and slider to 21% according to FanGraphs.
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If in 2022 the opposition hit for a poor .146 (246-36) to the pitches in exchange for the Dominican for this 2023 that average shoots up to .317 (126-40) according to Savant, the advanced statistical tool of the MLB.
This time he gets the worst results in that square since he established himself in the majors with the Marlinsin 2019, when he attended his first All-Star Game.
If you go down a little more on the surface, you will find that the quality of those hits this season have done more damage, since the slugging percentage (which measures extra-base hits) went from one year to the next from .195 to .460. No one homered off him with that pitch and he accepted 10 doubles last season, while this season they have taken the ball out of the park three times and he has allowed nine two-base hits.
In the rest of the pitches, there are no significant changes, even in the sinker it is better than last season, where they hit .234 against .267 in 2022.
Some underlying numbers indicate he’s been unlucky with allowed hits, but his FIP (which measures pitcher-controlled events like strikeouts, walks, hits and home runs) is a respectable 4.01 when the league average is 4.19.
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2023-07-21 07:39:31
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