Jon Rauch

Kansas City Royals

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Jon Rauch threw 5,617 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2007 and 2014, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season and Spring Training. In 2014, they relied primarily on their Fourseam Fastball (90mph) and Slider (83mph), also mixing in a Change (83mph), Sinker (90mph) and Curve (74mph).


In 2014, compared to other RHP:
Their fourseam fastball is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has less armside movement than typical and has slightly below average velo. Their slider (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 18 of them in 2014) is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sliders. Their change (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 9 of them in 2014) generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' changeups, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' changeups and has a lot of backspin. Their sinker (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 7 of them in 2014) generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' sinkers, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sinkers, has surprisingly little armside run, has little sinking action compared to a true sinker and has slightly below average velo. Their curve (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 4 of them in 2014) has an exceptional bite, is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' curves, has below average velo and results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' curves.