The Crawfish Boxes · Jul 25, 2023
Astros pitchers tiptoe around hard hit balls
Starting pitcher Framber Valdez in the dugout at Minute Maid Park.If you are a pitcher, hard hit batted balls usually are not a good thing. I think we all know that intuitively. Let’s take a look at hard hit balls and their impact on some of the pitchers in the Astros’ rotation.
What brought this to my attention? As I reviewed pitcher leaderboards at Fangraphs, I noticed that Framber Valdez is allowing a lot of hard contact, although he is among the league leaders in ERA.