As the 2018 Pittsburgh Pirates fade into Bolivan, we are left to pick apart the season that was and try to make sense of it.
Part of that is picking out some fantastic individual performances and feats. Today, we will focus on the best pitch among all Pittsburgh Pirates hurlers with at least 20 innings pitched for the big league club.
Our criteria for such a judgement will be fast and loose. Rather than set a rigid set of criteria and rote-fully spit out a justification for calling a pitch the “best”, we will take a “Know it when we see it” approach, though we will use Fangraphs’ pitch values across the board.