Found August 19, 2009 on
Where Is Andy Van Slyke:
After Ross Ohlendorf threw gas in the mountains last week and followed that up with a start last night in which he averaged around 92 mph and topped out at almost 95, I thought it would be a good idea to go into the PitchFX (thanks to Brooks Baseball, as always) and track his average fastball velocity through the season.
Before I share the chart, just a quick note on the numbers. I used his average four-seam fastball velocity to make this graph. On some nights, especially earlier in the season, he had anywhere between 10 and 30 fastballs classified as two-seamers. In every start except for the first two, the two-seamer tracks about 0.3-0.5 mph slower than the four-seamer (in his first couple, it's just a tick higher). I started off averaging the speeds for both pitches to get an average for all of his fastballs, but because the number of two-seamers was almost always a good bit smaller than the four seamers, they didn't actually affect the averages that much. So while these ...
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