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**BigRedChief** · 07-25-2015, 10:53 PM

Alex Reyes started his first game in Springfield tonight. Hit 102mph twice tonight.
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Explaining how dominating St. Louis Cardinals’ top pitching prospect Alex Reyes has been this season.

The thing that really stands out when watching Reyes pitch is his ability to induce swinging strikes, and a side effect of those strikes are his strikeouts. His 13.57 K/9 is the third best mark from a Florida State League pitcher with at least 60 innings pitched in the past ten years. The 20-year-old ranks ahead of pitchers like Matt Harvey, Jose Fernandez, Chris Archer, and Justin Verlander. The only two strikeout rates better than his in the past ten years were Tim Collins’ 13.8 K/9 with the Dunedin Blue Jays in 2009 and Anthony Slama’s 13.9 for the Fort Myers Miracle in 2008.

Take a look outside of the Florida State League, and Reyes’ accomplishment shines even more. Among professional pitchers with at least 60 innings in 2015, Reyes’ 13.57 K/9 is the best mark. There is no pitcher in the majors or at any minor league level with a better strikeout rate. If you drop the required innings limit to 50, Dellin Betances becomes the only pitcher with a better strikeout rate, having posted a 14.55 K/9 so far this season.

That is pretty heady company, and an impressive statistic any way you slice it. But let’s look at his strikeout rate a bit differently. While K/9 measures the raw number of strikeouts a pitcher accumulates in any given inning, K% examines what percentage of the batters a pitcher faces he strikes out. To illustrate this, if a pitcher throws a perfect inning with one strikeout, he would have a K/9 of nine and a K% of 33.3%.

Looking at this metric, we learn that Reyes has struck out 33.6% of the batters he has faced this season. By comparison, among Major League pitchers with at least 60 innings pitched, Clayton Kershaw leads the league by striking out 33.7% of his batters. The fact of the matter is that facing Alex Reyes isn’t fun, and if a batter is unlucky enough to see him three times in a game, said batter will almost surely be set down on strikes at least once.

Full article here:
http://www.scout.com/mlb/cardinals/s...iss-alex-reyes

07-25-2015, 10:53 PM	#461
BigRedChief Has a particular set of skills Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: On the water Casino cash: $-641038 VARSITY	Alex Reyes started his first game in Springfield tonight. Hit 102mph twice tonight. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Explaining how dominating St. Louis Cardinals’ top pitching prospect Alex Reyes has been this season. The thing that really stands out when watching Reyes pitch is his ability to induce swinging strikes, and a side effect of those strikes are his strikeouts. His 13.57 K/9 is the third best mark from a Florida State League pitcher with at least 60 innings pitched in the past ten years. The 20-year-old ranks ahead of pitchers like Matt Harvey, Jose Fernandez, Chris Archer, and Justin Verlander. The only two strikeout rates better than his in the past ten years were Tim Collins’ 13.8 K/9 with the Dunedin Blue Jays in 2009 and Anthony Slama’s 13.9 for the Fort Myers Miracle in 2008. Take a look outside of the Florida State League, and Reyes’ accomplishment shines even more. Among professional pitchers with at least 60 innings in 2015, Reyes’ 13.57 K/9 is the best mark. There is no pitcher in the majors or at any minor league level with a better strikeout rate. If you drop the required innings limit to 50, Dellin Betances becomes the only pitcher with a better strikeout rate, having posted a 14.55 K/9 so far this season. That is pretty heady company, and an impressive statistic any way you slice it. But let’s look at his strikeout rate a bit differently. While K/9 measures the raw number of strikeouts a pitcher accumulates in any given inning, K% examines what percentage of the batters a pitcher faces he strikes out. To illustrate this, if a pitcher throws a perfect inning with one strikeout, he would have a K/9 of nine and a K% of 33.3%. Looking at this metric, we learn that Reyes has struck out 33.6% of the batters he has faced this season. By comparison, among Major League pitchers with at least 60 innings pitched, Clayton Kershaw leads the league by striking out 33.7% of his batters. The fact of the matter is that facing Alex Reyes isn’t fun, and if a batter is unlucky enough to see him three times in a game, said batter will almost surely be set down on strikes at least once. Full article here: http://www.scout.com/mlb/cardinals/s...iss-alex-reyes __________________ Mahomes is not a game manager. Release the Kraken. Last edited by BigRedChief; 07-25-2015 at 11:02 PM..
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