Petit Preview

Yusmeiro Petit fills in for Brandon Webb against the Cubs tonight. He's faced the Cubs before, with mixed (mostly good) results. I've already looked at some of the Cubs hitters swing tendencies against Petit and a few of his mates. Now I'll go through his repertoire and, last, give you his pitch mix against the Cubs hitters.

Petit may cut or sink his fastball on occasion, but I'll lump the whole batch together. He throws a slurvey curve and a slutterly slider. Petit rounds it out with a change-up that sinks and tails away from righties.

With a fastball that averages just above 88 mph, you shouldn't be surprised that nearly half of his pitches are of the off-speed and breaking variety.

Petit pitches since 2007 (as seen by PITCHf/x)

Pitch      #   MPH
Change    226  80
Curve     213  75
Slider    362  82
Fastball  893  88

Throwing more change-ups to lefties and more sliders to righties, is never more than 65% likely to throw you a fastball (full counts to RHH). Petit does throw all of his pitches to start an at bat, and he gets ahead more often than not with each of them.

Against the Cubs

Here's his approach against the current Cubs, including the many many injured ones. There's more on these match-ups, and more, at the other preview post.