Here's the steepest pitch that's yielded a strike since 2015. 🛬 The steep end of the VAA spectrum is messier with dirtballs and just gravity in general, but this 81.8 mph curveball from Nick Pivetta had a -14.96° VAA. 🤯 A mini thread 🧵 1/ x.com/Okjawilan2/sta…
Here's the steepest pitch that's yielded a strike since 2015. 🛬 The steep end of the VAA spectrum is messier with dirtballs and just gravity in general, but this 81.8 mph curveball from Nick Pivetta had a -14.96° VAA. 🤯 A mini thread 🧵 1/ x.com/Okjawilan2/sta… https://t.co/4n2hoM6TZY
Pivetta's average Curveball VAA during the '23 season was -11.22°. In this approach angle chart from @TreadHQ you can see that his CB is towards the low end of the CB VAA bucket. (Average MLB CB VAA was -9.67°) 2/