Matt Harvey

Baltimore Orioles

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Matt Harvey threw 15,949 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2012 and 2023, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season, the MLB Postseason, The World Baseball Classic and Spring Training. In 2023, they relied primarily on their Slider (83mph) and Sinker (89mph), also mixing in a Fourseam Fastball (89mph), Change (82mph) and Curve (78mph).


In 2023, compared to other RHP:
Their slider is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' sliders and is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sliders. Their sinker is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' sinkers, has below average velo, results in somewhat more groundballs compared to other pitchers' sinkers and has slight armside run. Their fourseam fastball (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 19 of them in 2023) is a real worm killer that generates an extreme number of groundballs compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has below average velo, has some natural sinking action and has slight armside run. Their change (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 9 of them in 2023) is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' changeups, results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' changeups and has slight armside fade. Their curve (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 7 of them in 2023) generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' curves, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' curves, has a sharp downward bite and has primarily 12-6 movement.