What makes an offering by a pitcher in Major League Baseball, in particular someone from the 2015 Philadelphia Phillies pitching staff, a “good pitch”, effective on a consistent basis?
Today we’ll explore the question, and explain some of the methods that I used to evaluate those 2015 Phillies hurlers. Tomorrow, I’ll actually present the list of which five pitches from which pitchers made the cut as the five best this past season.
What does it for you in evaluating a pitch? Is it movement, such as the kind delivered by a moundsman which elicits a response from a TV analyst that a certain curveball is “falling off the table“, or that the pitcher’s slider is “biting” that day?