Wade Davis

Kansas City Royals

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Wade Davis threw 17,946 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2009 and 2021, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season, the MLB Postseason and Spring Training. In 2021, they relied primarily on their Fourseam Fastball (93mph) and Cutter (89mph), also mixing in a Curve using a Knuckle Curve grip (82mph) and Sinker (91mph). He also rarely threw a Change (84mph).


In 2021, compared to other RHP:
Their fourseam fastball has less armside movement than typical, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' fourseamers and has essentially average velo. Their cutter has heavy sink, has extreme cut action, generates a high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' cutters and results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' cutters. Their curve using a knuckle curve grip is much harder than usual, has a sharp downward bite and has primarily 12-6 movement. Their sinker generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' sinkers and has less armside run than typical. Their change (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 12 of them in 2021) generates fewer whiffs/swing compared to other pitchers' changeups, has slight cut action and results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' changeups.