Joel De La Cruz

Atlanta Braves

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Joel De La Cruz threw 1,004 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system in 2016, all of them occuring in the MLB Regular Season. In 2016, they relied primarily on their Sinker (92mph), Slider (87mph) and Change (85mph). He also rarely threw a Fourseam Fastball (92mph) and Splitter (92mph).


In 2016, compared to other RHP:
Their sinker has some natural sinking action. Their slider has less than expected depth, has primarily 12-6 movement and results in somewhat more groundballs compared to other pitchers' sliders. Their change results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' changeups. Their fourseam fastball generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has heavy sinking action, has essentially average velo and has slightly less natural movement than typical. Their splitter (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 1 of them in 2016) is thrown extremely hard, is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' splitters, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' splitters and has slight armside fade.