Rick Van Den Hurk

Pittsburgh Pirates

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Rick Van Den Hurk threw 2,243 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2007 and 2012, all of them occuring in the MLB Regular Season. In 2012, they relied primarily on their Fourseam Fastball (95mph), also mixing in a Slider (84mph), Sinker (94mph) and Curve (76mph).


In 2012, compared to other RHP:
Their fourseam fastball has heavy sinking action, is a real worm killer that generates an extreme number of groundballs compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, generates more whiffs/swing compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has slight armside run and has slightly above average velo. Their slider (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 11 of them in 2012) generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' sliders, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sliders, has short glove-side cut and has some two-plane movement. Their sinker (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 10 of them in 2012) generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' sinkers, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sinkers, has well above average velo, has slight armside run and has some natural sinking action. Their curve (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 4 of them in 2012) is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' curves, has sweeping glove-side movement, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' curves, has a sharp downward bite and has slightly below average velo.