Get excited to watch these in 2016!
Whiffs are looked at as a key to a pitcher's "stuff"; more whiffs obviously indicates a better pitcher. Garnering whiffs is also big as your defense can't screw up on balls not in play, save stolen bases and dropped thirds. This is extra important when you have noodle arms and concrete gloves sprinkled around the diamond. The A's should be decent defensively next year, but whiffs are still imperative.
Per Brooks Baseball, these are the top 10 whiff inducing pitches by A's starters from the 2015 season. These are taken from a sometimes tiny sample and don't necessarily indicate the best pitches, just the pitches you're most likely to see a grown man swing a piece of lumber through the air without making contact with a ball.