Jordan Walden

St. Louis Cardinals

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Jordan Walden threw 3,971 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2010 and 2015, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season and Spring Training. In 2015, they relied primarily on their Fourseam Fastball (96mph) and Slider (85mph), also mixing in a Change (86mph).


In 2015, compared to other RHP:
Their fourseam fastball generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, is a real worm killer that generates an extreme number of groundballs compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has some natural sinking action, has well above average velo and has slight armside run. Their slider generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' sliders. Their change has an obvious armside fade, generates more whiffs/swing compared to other pitchers' changeups, is slightly firmer than usual and has some natural sink to it.