Yuki Matsui

San Diego Padres

Pitch Repertoire At-A-Glance

Yuki Matsui has thrown 1,112 pitches that have been tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2023 and 2024, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season, The World Baseball Classic and Spring Training. In 2024, they have relied primarily on their Fourseam Fastball (92mph), Splitter (87mph) and Cutter (86mph), also mixing in a Slider (82mph). He also rarely throws a Curve (75mph) and Sinker (91mph).


In 2024, compared to other LHP:
Their fourseam fastball has much less armside movement than typical, has essentially average velo, results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' fourseamers and has some added backspin. Their splitter is thrown extremely hard, has surprising cut action, generates more whiffs/swing compared to other pitchers' splitters, has some natural sink to it and results in somewhat more groundballs compared to other pitchers' splitters. Their cutter generates an extremely high number of swings & misses compared to other pitchers' cutters, has heavy sink, has sweeping cut action and results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' cutters. Their slider sweeps across the zone, results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' sliders and has some two-plane movement. Their curve (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 13 of them in 2024) has an exceptional bite, is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' curves and results in somewhat more flyballs compared to other pitchers' curves. Their sinker (take this with a grain of salt because they've only thrown 2 of them in 2024) is basically never swung at and missed compared to other pitchers' sinkers, is an extreme flyball pitch compared to other pitchers' sinkers, has surprisingly little armside run and has little sinking action compared to a true sinker.