When Aaron Nola’s curveball is on, it’s one of the best pitches in Major League Baseball. Among pitchers who’ve thrown at least 5,000 pitches since the start of 2017 (106 in all), Nola’s curve generated 543 swings and misses. That means nearly 6 percent (5.9%) of Nola’s entire pitch total over the last three years is made up of whiffs on curves, a huge total that has him tied with Charlie Morton for third-best percentage in the league in that time. Only Arizona’s Zack Godley (7.5%) and the recently traded Corey Kluber (6.
Aaron Nola’s curveball needs to get back in shape
