Vince Velasquez

Pittsburgh Pirates

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Vince Velasquez threw 13,863 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2015 and 2023, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season and Spring Training. In 2023, they relied primarily on their Slider (83mph) and Fourseam Fastball (93mph), also mixing in a Change (88mph). He also rarely threw a Sinker (93mph) and Curve (81mph).


In 2023, compared to other RHP:
Their slider has short glove-side cut, results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' sliders and has some two-plane movement. Their fourseam fastball generates a high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has less armside movement than typical, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' fourseamers and has essentially average velo. Their change is thrown extremely hard, is a real worm killer that generates an extreme number of groundballs compared to other pitchers' changeups and has some natural sink to it. Their sinker (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 9 of them in 2023) generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' sinkers and is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sinkers. Their curve (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 7 of them in 2023) has primarily 12-6 movement, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' curves, has little depth and is slightly harder than usual.