Michael Pineda - Pineda's Potential - Espn New York - Yankees Blog

Our very helpful data people, Mark Simon and Katie Sharp, were being style enough that will pass on quite a few insight. I have got highlighted the top stuff.

* For Michael Pineda , 2011 was saga of a couple of halves. He ended up being excellent in the first, not so much inside the second.

* He was 8-6 having a 3.03 ERA while in the first half. In the second, your dog appeared to be 1-4 using a 5.12.

* He was great at Safeco (5-4, 2.92 ERA) , not so great driving (4-6, 4.40).

* He strikes out and about a lot of guys, finishing seventh overall involving football with 9.1 K's per eight innings.

* He throws really, truly hard. His fastball averaged 94.5 mph, that's fifth-highest while in the game.

* Righties can not hit the guy, seeing that he / she they acquired a significant little league hardest .184 common versus him.

* Lastly, this is the superb list. Here would be the nearly all strikeouts into their Age 22 season as well as newer inside Divisional Era (since 1969):

1984 Dwight Gooden (276) 1998 Kerry Wood (233) 1969 Tom Griffen (200) 1986 Bobby Witt (174) 2011 Michael Pineda (173)