AZ Snake Pit · Nov 3, 2017
2017 Arizona Diamondbacks Review: #34, Braden Shipley
Braden Shipley Date of birth: February 22, 1992
2017 line: 10 games, 25 IP, 5.76 ERA, 18:15 K:BB
2017 value: -0.2 bWAR
2017 salary: minimum, arbitration starts 2020
SnakePit rating: 4.20
2017 analysis
Braden Shipley has three main pitches – a four-seam fastball which sometimes flattens out if he pitches it at top velocity (Nick Piecoro wrote that it is more effective when he throttles it back), an outstanding change-up that is very deceptive because it dies at the plate, and a “league average” curve with a big break “often early out of the hand.”