Let's Go Tribe · Sep 7, 2018
Yandy Diaz in three pictures
I want you to look at a few pictures with me.
Well, not with me, I already looked at them, and drew some conclusions that may be right, may be wrong. You can draw your own conclusions. I’m not your dad.
Anyway, this is about Yandy Diaz, and a couple pictures that, I think, tell an interesting story about his abilities at the plate. First, here are all the pitches Diaz has taken this season in the majors that were called a ball, colored by pitch type:
That’s 32.7 percent of all the pitches he’s seen this year as of Thursday afternoon. The plurality of them are four-seam fastballs, 35.2 percent, followed by sliders at 29.8 and then two-seamers at 15.4 and changeups at 9.9.