Craig Kimbrel

Texas Rangers

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Craig Kimbrel has thrown 15,083 pitches that have been tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2010 and 2025, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season, the MLB Postseason and Spring Training. In 2025, they have relied primarily on their Fourseam Fastball (93mph), also mixing in a Slider (84mph) and Curve using a Knuckle Curve grip (83mph). He also rarely throws a Change (88mph).


In 2025, compared to other RHP:
Their fourseam fastball generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has some natural sinking action, has essentially average velo, results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' fourseamers and has slight armside run. Their slider sweeps across the zone, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' sliders and has some two-plane movement. Their curve using a knuckle curve grip is much harder than usual and has slight glove-side movement. Their change (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 16 of them in 2025) is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' changeups, dives down out of the zone and is much firmer than usual.