How many pitches did Edwin Diaz throw?
Puerto Rican professional baseball pitcher Edwin Orlando Díaz Laboy who plays for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He made his major league debut in June 2016 with the Seattle Mariners, where he played between 2016 and 2018. Díaz’s 24 saves when entering a game with a one-run lead broke the record for…
Puerto Rican professional baseball pitcher Edwin Orlando Díaz Laboy who plays for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He made his major league debut in June 2016 with the Seattle Mariners, where he played between 2016 and 2018.
Díaz’s 24 saves when entering a game with a one-run lead broke the record for most in a season, which had been 23, set by Francisco Rodríguez for the Angels of Anaheim in 2008. His save number 46 of the season was part of 27 straight saves; he had a 0.39 ERA in games that he had saved in the 2018 season.
How many pitches did Edwin Diaz throw?
Edwin Díaz has thrown 6,595 pitches that have been tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2016 and 2022, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season and Spring Training. In 2022, they have relied primarily on their Slider (91mph) and Fourseam Fastball (99mph).
Edwin’s slider is thrown extremely hard, generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers’ sliders, and has primarily 12-6 movement. Edwin’s four-seam fastball generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers’ four seamers, is a real worm killer that generates an extreme number of groundballs compared to other pitchers’ four-seamers, and is thrown at a speed that’s borderline unfair, has some natural sinking action and has slight arm side run.
