Chien-Ming Wang

Kansas City Royals

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Chien-Ming Wang threw 5,525 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2007 and 2016, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season and Spring Training. In 2016, they relied primarily on their Sinker (92mph), also mixing in a Fourseam Fastball (92mph) and Slider (85mph). He also rarely threw a Change (81mph) and Curve (77mph).


In 2016, compared to other RHP:
Their sinker has some natural sinking action. Their fourseam fastball is a real worm killer that generates an extreme number of groundballs compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has some natural sinking action, has essentially average velo and has slight armside run. Their slider has primarily 12-6 movement and results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' sliders. Their change is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' changeups, results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' changeups and has slightly below average velo. Their curve (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 9 of them in 2016) results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' curves, has a sharp downward bite and has primarily 12-6 movement.