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Bucco Breakfast: Inside Jameson Taillon’s 2018 Strikeouts

Welcome to Bucco Breakfast, a new daily morning feature designed to help Pittsburgh Pirates fans through the offseason. Each day we’ll roll out a quick topic designed to spark conversation as well as provide some interesting baseball reading from around the web.

For this week’s Bucco Breakfast menu, we will look at how each Pirates’ starting pitcher earned his strikeouts in 2018. First up: Jameson Taillon.

A quick look at the pitch types and locations of Taillon’s strikeout shows somewhat of a standard profile for someone with Taillon’s pitch selection.