Clay Zavada

Milwaukee Brewers

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Clay Zavada threw 860 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2009 and 2012, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season and Spring Training. In 2012, they relied primarily on their Change (78mph), Sinker (85mph) and Slider (82mph), also mixing in a Fourseam Fastball (86mph).


In 2012, compared to other LHP:
Their change (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 6 of them in 2012) comes in below hitting speed, is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' changeups, is an extreme flyball pitch 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 4 of them in 2012) is so slow that it is substantially gravitational, is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' sinkers, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sinkers, has surprisingly little armside run and has little sinking action compared to a true sinker. Their slider (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 4 of them in 2012) generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' sliders, has much less depth than expected, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' sliders and has primarily 12-6 movement. Their fourseam fastball (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 2 of them in 2012) comes in below hitting speed, is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has good "rising" action and has less armside movement than typical.