Year	Team	G	IP	W	L	ERA	ERA+	SO	WHIP
2011	CLE	8	7.3	1	1	6.14	64	9	1.364
2012	COL	2	2.0	0	0	0.00	—	0	2.000
2013	CHC	5	3.3	0	0	18.90	20	4	2.700
2014	CWS	49	54.7	5	3	1.98	189	46	1.079
2015	CWS	49	48.7	3	3	4.07	97	64	1.356
2016	CWS	25	27.3	1	0	2.30	182	30	1.317
2017	CWS	7	8.7	0	0	1.04	418	9	0.346
Career		145	152.0	10	7	—	—	162	—

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 · 1,379 pitches · 2015–2017

FS · Split-Finger63.5% · 85.1 mph

FF · 4-Seam Fastball13.3% · 90.8 mph

SI · Sinker11.6% · 91.3 mph

FC · Cutter11.5% · 88.9 mph

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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