Kyle Scharber’s early season numbers are weird. Even though he is whiffing less overall due to connecting against fastballs, he’s still getting beat extremely badly by secondary pitches.
Schwarber’s current whiff rate is 25 percent, which is down by five percentage points from last season and currently at the league-average mark. I’d normally be pretty excited to see Schwarber whiffing so much less, but I’m a little puzzled by his inability to hit secondary offerings.
Against fastballs in 2019, you can see that Schwarber basically has less than a 10 percent chance of whiffing inside the strike zone.