The Royals traded away all of their best breaking balls

If you follow me on Twitter (@duvy_013), you may have seen at some point in time that I like to try to rank individual pitches.

More lunchbreak research! Just re-ran my slider data (again) for the entire 2018 season. Minimum 250 total pitches and 100 sliders thrown:

1) Scott Alexander
2) Tyler Glasnow
3) Matt Strahm
10) Joakim Soria
52) Kelvin Herrera
91) Jakob Junis
133) Brad Keller
230) Heath Fillmyer— Alex Duvall (@duvy_013) January 18, 2019

There is also an entire Twitter account dedicated to pitch quality, you can find them @qopbaseball.