Lance McCullers Jr.

Houston Astros

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Lance McCullers Jr. threw 13,615 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2015 and 2022, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season, the MLB Postseason and Spring Training. In 2022, they relied primarily on their Slider (85mph), Sinker (93mph) and Curve (83mph), also mixing in a Change (87mph). He also rarely threw a Cutter (89mph) and Fourseam Fastball (93mph).


In 2022, compared to other RHP:
Their slider sweeps across the zone and results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' sliders. Their sinker has heavy sinking action and has slightly above average velo. Their curve generates a very high amount of groundballs compared to other pitchers' curves, is much harder than usual, has a sharp downward bite and has slight glove-side movement. Their change has an obvious armside fade, dives down out of the zone, is slightly firmer than usual and results in somewhat more groundballs compared to other pitchers' changeups. Their cutter generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' cutters, has heavy sink, results in more flyballs compared to other pitchers' cutters and has strong cutting action. Their fourseam fastball (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 13 of them in 2022) has heavy sinking action, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' fourseamers and has essentially average velo.