While producing a dominant season in 2019, Walker Buehler did so as he significantly changed his pitch usage.
Clearly it was for the better as it led to a rise in strikeouts, with his strikeout percentage rising to 29.2 from 27.9, and a drop in walks as his walk percentage landed at 5.0 from 6.8 in 2018. The resulting K-BB% of 24.2 finished 7th among qualified pitchers in baseball, behind four pitchers you’d expect (Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Jacob deGrom) and two of the league’s other top young pitchers (Shane Bieber and Lucas Giolito).