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Breaking Down Homer Bailey part 2

I want to look at Homer Bailey over his final 3 starts when he came back from the disabled list with a healthy groin. I am going to look at his starts in 3 parts. Today I am going to look at Homer Bailey and what he did when he threw his fastball. Yesterday, I looked at his curveball.

Over the three starts, Bailey threw 173 fastballs in the three games. The fastball was his pitch of choice 66% of the time. Below is a chart breaking down all 173 pitches and the swinging results of the pitch.

Of the 173 fastballs thrown, Bailey threw 66 balls (38%) and 107 strikes (including fouls and balls put in play [62%]). The interesting thing about this is that Bailey threw strikes 6% more often with his curveball than his fastball.  Overall for the speeds, it appears that Bailey is throwing both a 2 and a 4 seam fastball which can be noted by the movement/speed of the pitches. I would like to see a little better control of the fastball for him, but I would expect his control to get a little better as he continues to pitch. Tomorrow I will look at Bailey’s 3rd pitch, his change up.

Again, a HUGE thanks go out to Josh Kalk for helping me get the information so I could break it down and make the chart. You can check out his blog http://www.baseball.bornbybits.com/blog/blog.html for some really great stuff using the MLB Enhanced Gameday Pitch f/x information.

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