![]() ![]() But against hitters still on the roster, he’s doing better, with a. Boyd has a rough ERA from his past against the Royals, coming in at 5.32 over 135 1/3 innings. 295, while his hard-hit percentage is a manageable 34.4%. The Tigers, meanwhile, will send Matthew Boyd to the mound he has a similar schism between his ERA and FIP - 5.60 and 4.57, respectively - suggesting a bit of unluckiness, too. Just three other qualified pitchers in the Statcast era (dating back to 2015) have posted a hard-hit percentage at 55% or higher: Toronto’s Nate Pearson (56.7%) this season, Minnesota’s Randy Dobnak (55.6%) in 2021 and Cincinnati’s Nate Jones (56.4%) in 2020. (His total of hard-hit balls, 124, ranks fourth slightly behind San Francisco’s Logan Webb at 126 and slightly ahead of Arizona’s Zac Gallen at 114, but their hard-hit percentages are in the mid-40s.) To put that 55.9% in perspective: Tigers reliever Rony Garcia led all MLB pitchers last season in hard-hit percentage - at 51.1%. He’s allowing hard contact (defined as an exit velocity of 95 mph or more) on 55.9% of his balls in play, No. (Though Singer is just below the innings bar right now, thanks to several short starts, such as his May 22 outing against the Tigers in which he gave up five runs in just 3 2/3 innings.) But it’s not all on his defense, or random balls falling in for hits. 354 for Singer holds up, it’d tie for the 11 th-worst BABIP in AL or NL history among starting pitchers qualified for the ERA title. 328 and the Tampa Bay Rays (who field pretty well everywhere) ranking first, at. Louis Cardinals - who, we’ll note, have been gawdawful on defense - ranking last at. 354 batting average on balls in play (aka, BABIP). 1: He has been moderately unlucky, at least in pitching terms. So what’s the deal? There are at least a couple of answers. But his FIP - an ERA-like stat that attempts to measure how well a pitcher is controlling the things he can control (walks, strikeouts, homers) - is just 4.47. True, his walks are up, with 28 already in 14 starts. Instead, he’s been one of MLB’s worst starters, with a 6.33 ERA - despite striking out 65 in 69⅔ innings. righty, who went 18 th in the 2018 draft (17 picks after the Tigers took Casey Mize) out of Florida, appeared to be ready for a breakout season after posting a 3.23 ERA with 150 strikeouts and 35 walks over 153⅓ innings last season. Game notes: OK, who broke Brady Singer? The K.C.
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