Of all his pitches, Young’s curveball had the lowest wOBA at .126. This was his strikeout pitch, nabbing 46.5% of his strikeouts (33) with his curveball. He throws it inside the strike zone just 29.9% of the time and had a 18.8 whiff% (on 44.7 Sw%), but the really impressive number is that he threw the pitch out of the zone 70.1% of the time and had a whopping 37.2 Sw% and 59.4 whiff%. That is, of the 172 curveballs outside the zone, 64 induced swings and 38 of those swings were misses, generating 26 strikeouts.
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Blurb written by Mark McElroy