Kazuhisa Makita

San Diego Padres

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Kazuhisa Makita threw 461 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system in 2018, all of them occuring in the MLB Regular Season. In 2018, they relied primarily on their Fourseam Fastball (81mph), also mixing in a Slider (70mph) and Sinker (80mph). He also rarely threw a Curve (60mph) and Change (72mph).


In 2018, compared to other RHP:
Their fourseam fastball comes in below hitting speed, generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' fourseamers, has heavy sinking action, results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' fourseamers and has slight armside run. Their slider comes in below hitting speed, is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' sliders, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sliders, has much less depth than expected and has short glove-side cut. Their sinker is so slow that it is substantially gravitational, generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' sinkers, has heavy sinking action and is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sinkers. Their curve comes in below hitting speed, has very little depth and results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' curves. Their change (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 18 of them in 2018) comes in below hitting speed, dives down out of the zone and results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' changeups.