Year	Team	G	IP	W	L	ERA	ERA+	SO	WHIP
2013	MIN	9	11.3	0	0	0.79	489	10	1.059
2014	MIN	25	19.0	0	0	4.74	79	16	1.526
2015	MIN	26	23.3	0	0	3.47	114	19	1.286
2016	MIN	65	71.7	3	2	5.02	83	80	1.451
2017	MIN	16	21.0	0	1	5.14	85	24	1.619
2023	ATL	45	80.0	7	3	4.28	101	75	1.088
2024	NYY	57	79.3	4	4	3.63	112	85	1.261
2025	MIN	21	24.0	2	1	4.88	85	19	1.167
Career		264	329.6	16	11	—	—	328	—

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 · 5,140 pitches · 2015–2025

FF · 4-Seam Fastball55.8% · 93.8 mph

SL · Slider32.4% · 83.5 mph

SI · Sinker7.6% · 92.9 mph

ST · Sweeper3.7% · 80.5 mph

Rare or unclassified pitches (0.5%) 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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