New Guy f/x - Kevin Gregg

The Kerry Wood era has come to a close. Carlos Marmol is the Cubs' closer. Kevin Gregg is their veteran set-up guy (and insurance policy for Marmol). In the process, the Cubs save themselves several million dollars, and the risk that comes with a multi-year deal for Wood.

This is my first pass at Gregg, there will be more to come on the new guy this off-season. Gregg has, essentially, a three-pitch arsenal. He relies heavily on a four-seam fastball, which sits around 92-94, and has a good slider to go with it. Lefties and righties both get a look at his splitter, more so the lefties.

He may also throw a change-up, but I'll just leave the off-speed pitches as splitters for now. I also found three cutters and a few two-seamers. Or data errors. For now, they've been lumped in with the four-seam.

Gregg is big, about 6'6" and 230. He's only 30, but just had surgery to relieve patella tendinitis in his left knee.

cfx	#	mph	pfx_x	pfx_z	deg	rpm
FA	1028	93.5	-6.7	10.2	213.0	1,629.9
FS	213	85.6	-5.6	4.3	224.3	908.5
SL	337	83.6	2.5	-0.7	194.9	386.0
	1578	90.3	-4.6	7.1	210.7	1,266.8

cfx	#	LHH	RHH	Swing	Whiff	B:CS	ISZ	Paint	Chase	Watch
FA	1028	540	488	0.4232	0.1402	1.8	0.4173	0.1255	0.2604	0.3497
FS	213	141	72	0.4366	0.3118	6.5	0.1972	0.0657	0.3450	0.1905
SL	337	104	233	0.3472	0.3590	2.1	0.3828	0.0623	0.2837	0.5504
	1578	785	793	0.4087	0.2047	2.2	0.3802	0.1039	0.2802	0.3817