Earlier this week we took a look at some of the Statcast hitting data that I was able to gather from a sampling of 20 games that I was able to get access to from last August and September that involved the Cincinnati Reds playing in bridge and instructional league games.

While I was able to watch the games and in most, but not all of them, there was some Statcast data on the screen, they didn’t all show the same stuff. The games also didn’t include the pitch types, just stuff like velocity and spin rates and induced vertical break for some of the games. I didn’t have access to the files, so I had to manually input the pitch by pitch information and it took quite a bit of time to do that. But it’s now completed and I’ve compiled everything for the pitchers that I was able to see in those games.

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Before getting into the data and some of the things that I saw I need to make it as clear as possible: The sample size here is incredibly small for everyone. And the games were spread out over about a 7-week period of time and even the guys that played in the most games only have a handful of innings worth of data spread out over that span. Toss in the fact that this also came at the end of the year when guys have been mostly pitching all year and probably aren’t at the peak of their performance and it’s just a warning to understand that this information is useful to have but it’s not a full picture in any way.

The Pitchers Data

Some Observations

Of all of the data I saw one guy stood out so far above the rest that it’s not even close. Kyle McCoy, the Reds 8th round pick out of Maryland in 2025, is just throwing the strangest of fastballs. He didn’t pitch after the draft in any regular season games, but he did pitch in two of the games I had access to and at first I thought that the Trackman that was supplying the on-screen information was malfunctioning. But the rest of the pitchers seemed to have normal data and the other game he pitched in showed the same thing.

The average 4-seam fastball in MLB averages about 2300 RPM for it’s spin rate. The average MLB 2-seamer is around 2150 RPM. Kyle McCoy was throwing his fastball with RPM numbers between 1420 and 1900. Generally speaking the higher the RPM on a fastball the more backspin it has and the more “rise” it has, while the lower the RPM the more “sink” it’s going to have.

The sample size is pretty small with McCoy (video below), but his average spin rate on his fastball was 1715. Over the last three years in MLB 430 pitchers have thrown at least 50 2-seam fastballs and no one has had a spin rate that low on the pitch as far as averages go and only Josh Fleming was within 100 RPM of that, coming in at 1759. Only 10 pitchers were even below 1900.

Two guys were also standouts, though not to the same extreme as McCoy, when it comes to their fastball’s induced vertical break. Lisnerkin Lantigua averaged 19.5 inches of IVB on his fastball. Abraham Gaitan was averaging 18″ on his. Stharlin Torres also averaged 18″ of IVB, but I only saw him pitch one game and he only threw a handful of fastballs in that outing.

Dominic Scheffler stood out for the spin rate on his breaking ball on his curveball. He was the only guy to top 3000 RPM with any pitch (the first pitch in the video below was 3049 RPM). He was also the only guy to top 2900. His slider (mid-80’s) also has plenty of spin to it, but it doesn’t quite spin as much as the curveball (mid 70’s) did.