Who Has The Best Hook In MLB?
Who Has The Best Hook In MLB?
Instead of doing what I usually do, which is tell you who has the best curve by me looking at it on SportsCentre highlights, I am going to look at the top MLB curveball-tossers and use stats to back up my argument.
Few pitchers rely on their curveball more than Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay, and nobody is having more success with the pitch this season. The table below lists the eight pitchers who have thrown the most curves this season, and the best numbers belong to Halladay:
By every measure, Halladay has the best curveball. Among all pitchers who have thrown at least 200 curves this season, Halladay ranks in the top four in each category and leads the league in miss percentage and strikeout percentage.
Halladay has always had a good curve, but rarely one this good. It’s no surprise then that he is having his best season since 2003, when he took the AL Cy Young award.
July 6, 2008
Where do you guys find this data?! That looks like IE goodness, with the Well-Hit %, etc. That isn’t on Fangraphs, is it?