Red Sox vs Dan Haren

The Sox face Dan Haren tonight, one night after a dramatic walk off home run by Kevin Youkilis.Let us take a look at Dan Haren.Haren throws a fastball, slider, changeup and splitter. His money pitch is the splitter, which one of the best in the game. It has great late bite on it and hitters have trouble making contact on it.Here is his horizontal vs vertical movement chart. As always, it is taken from the catcher's point of view.You can see the great movement on the splitter here. It has as much downward break as his slider, and moves to the pitchers glove side. Normally, splitters don't move horizontally like this, but that just goes to show you how nice the pitch is.Here are his stats:RHB CH FB SL SF Grand Total Strike % 43.5% 68.4% 68.8% 69.4% 67.8% Contact % 75.0% 95.6% 79.4% 56.7% 80.0% LHB CH FB SL SF Grand Total Strike % 62.9% 61.8% 69.7% 63.2% 63.4% Contact % 76.5% 88.8% 82.9% 68.7% 82.3% Looking at RHB,...