Mike Petriello with MLB.com has an interesting piece up today, in which he takes some of the best pitches in MLB (by pitch and pitcher), and then uses the Statcast data to figure out what pitchers throw a pitch that is closest to that dominant pitch.
Its an interesting article that makes great use of the Statcast data, and looks at, among other things, who is the closest to Gerrit Cole’s curveball, Zack Britton’s sinker and Blake Snell’s fastball, among others.
One of the pitches that Petriello looks like is Dustin May’s sinker — he describes it as “May’s ridiculous power sinker” — that the Los Angeles Dodgers righthander used to great effect this past season.