http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/fantasy/article/player-spotlight-johnny-cueto/
Very interesting stuff, go give it a look.
As a side note: Jay Bruce.

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Today I got everything working again and had a chance to take a look at some data. It appears that the data from GABP is still being skewed by something, although the guys at Sportsvision aren’t quite sure if they have the issue figured out yet, but have made an adjustment. The have yet to [...]

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Johnny Cueto had his first ‘rough’ day of the year on Sunday against the Pirates. He allowed 5 runs, including 2 HR and walked his first batter of the year. I wanted to take a look at his pitches versus the strikezone.

As you can see, he missed the zone a lot. While he only walked [...]

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Cueto pitched real well last night again and for the second game in a row, did not walk a batter. The data seems quite a bit different from last night in Milwaukee than it does from his first start in Cincinnati. Those differences will be noted below though. Here is what Cueto did speed wise [...]

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As I noted yesterday, something about the movement on Cueto’s pitch plot didn’t look right at all, so I sent out some emails and Mike Fast who has a blog about the Pitch F/X system and also just started writing for The Hardball Times got back to me this morning. Now, here is what I [...]

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7 innings pitched, 1 hit (HR to Justin Upton), 0 walks and 10 strikeouts. Thats incredible. So much for the Reds not being able to produce starting pitching from its system…..
While I believe there may have been something going on with the pitch f/x system in terms of the movement in Cueto’s pitches that I [...]

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