STARTERS: BPV vs. LH/RH, 2021
Jun 19 2021
Let's continue our "one-split-away" theme by moving on to lefty-righty skill splits of starting pitchers.
This analysis can help you find hidden skills before they blossom, which can especially be helpful when looking at young SP. It can also help you set your rotations based on the lineups your pitchers are facing.
Take the headliner of this same column two years ago, Corbin Burnes (RHP, MIL), about whom we wrote:
Corbin Burnes (RHP, MIL) is the most skilled starting pitcher in the game against RH bats, and it's not even close. He has combined elite strikeout and walk rates against them: 14.8 Dom, 0.8 Ctl, 44% GB%, 268 BPV. A crazy 38% H%, 44% S%, and 32% hr/f vR have torpedoed his ERA against righty bats (6.46 ERA). There remains...
Almost!
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