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Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Rick Porcello and his “sinker”
I have watched Porcello off and on for 3 years now. He is a mediocre pitcher who was touted as a very good prospect - a first round draft pick in 2007.
I don’t think I have ever seen a sinker ball pitcher throw so many sinkers up in the zone. If you are a Tiger’s fan, that must be very frustrating. He seems to have decent command with a nice, smooth delivery, unlike someone like, say, Fausto Carmona. There really shouldn’t be any reason why he can’t throw that pitch consistently down in the zone. In fact, he doesn’t walk that many batters. He should be throwing so far down in the zone that he ends up missing low more often such that he walks a few more batters. It almost seems to me that he wants to strike batters out and that he overthrows.
I have never seen any of his pitch f/x data, but I would bet that he throws his sinker too far up in the zone, on the average, compared to other sinker ball pitchers. On top of that, I don’t think that he has THAT much of a sinker, so he really needs to pitch down in the zone. Again, I have never seen any “spin” pitch f/x data, but I would also bet that his sinker does not sink as much as other sinker ball pitchers, like Carmona, Lowe, Wang, Webb, etc.
What say some of you pitch gurus and Tiger fans?
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