Year	Team	G	IP	W	L	ERA	ERA+	SO	WHIP
2013	STL	18	17.3	0	1	5.71	68	14	1.673
2015	MIL	45	55.7	5	3	2.43	163	47	1.042
2016	MIL	41	41.3	3	1	5.66	74	36	1.911
2017	MIL	5	8.7	0	1	8.31	52	7	1.500
2019	WSH	4	5.0	0	0	7.20	62	0	2.200
Career		113	128.0	8	6	—	—	104	—

Pitch Movement Map

Each pitch type this pitcher throws regularly, placed by how the ball moves — sideways break across, rise or drop down the side. Each dotted ring holds about the middle 85% of the league’s pitches of that type, so a cluster sitting outside its ring is movement most pitchers don’t have.

RHP · 1,897 pitches · 2015–2019

FF · 4-Seam Fastball36.5% · 94.0 mph

SL · Slider26.6% · 83.5 mph

CU · Curveball22.2% · 77.5 mph

SI · Sinker13.5% · 92.5 mph

Rare or unclassified pitches (1.2%) not mapped.

The dots — a sample of this pitcher’s regular-season pitches, placed by movement: left–right is horizontal break, up–down is induced vertical break (what the pitch does beyond gravity). The view is handedness-neutral — positive break is toward the pitcher’s arm side for lefties and righties alike, so every sinker runs right and every sweeper breaks left, whoever throws it.

The dotted rings — about the middle 85% of where each pitch type lands league-wide (a 2-standard-deviation spread), measured from 7.5 million regular-season pitches since 2015. A cluster sitting well outside its ring is movement most of the league doesn’t get. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.

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